Constituency
87. Khagaria
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-KHAGARIA
SSP 21.2%won by 0.2%INC 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedSamyukta Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.2% to 0.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 38.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 42.3% between them, down from 92.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.5% to 54.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,33,193
Turnout
54.7%
Valid votes
3,46,362
Margin
548
0.16%
Candidates
10 contested · winner SSP- 1SHIVSHANKAR PRASAD YADAVSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP73,59421.2%
- 2SUMITRA DEVIIndian National Congress · INC73,04621.1%
- 3BALKRISHNA AZADIndependent · IND69,38720.0%
- 4SATISH PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND41,25111.9%
- 5KRISHNA KANT SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM26,7767.7%
- 6MAHARAJ PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND19,5805.7%
- 7RAJENDRA PRASADNCO · NCO18,6825.4%
- 8KAMESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND18,6275.4%
- 9SHIVAKANT MISHRAIndependent · IND4,0851.2%
- 10JAMALUDDINBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD1,3340.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- SSP
- SSP–INC swing
- −28.0%
- SSP share
- 60.1% → 21.2%
- INC share
- 31.9% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- 60.3% → 54.7%