SOSOCNational partySOC
Contested 2 general elections between 1962 and 1971, winning 6 Lok Sabha seats from 112 candidacies. 59 assembly seats won in 12 states.
Lok Sabha overall · since 1962
2
Elections contested
6
Seats won, all time
6
Best result (1962)
1.4%
Avg. vote share
112 candidacies fielded in total
Latest (1971)
0
5 contested · 0.04% of the national vote
Strike rate, all time
5.4%
seats won per seat contested
Seats won
Across every general election contested, Lok Sabha
Results Overview
- Won6 (5%)
- Lost106 (95%)
National vote share
Share of all valid votes cast in India, not of seats contested
A regional party fighting 40 seats out of 543 is capped at a low national share however well it does. Read this line against the seats chart above, not on its own.
Key highlights
- Best-ever result was 6 seats in 1962, on 2.69% of the national vote.
- At the 1971 election it contested 5 seats and won 0, a 0% strike rate.
- Strongest constituency is SAHARSA, Bihar, won 1 time, most recently in 1962.
- Holds a state assembly record in 12 states, with 59 assembly seats won overall.
Totals
Across 2 general elections the party has polled 31.5 lakh votes and lost 80 deposits. It has won 59 assembly seats across 14 state elections. Machine-readable at /api/parties/soc.