Constituency
24. Kateya
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1967
BR-KATEYA
INC 51.8%won by 30.3%IND 21.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 30.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 46.4% to 51.8% of the vote here (+5.4%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 21.5% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.3% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
28,887
Margin
8,743
30.27%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1B. MAHARAIndian National Congress · INC14,95651.8%
- 2A. CHAMARIndependent · IND6,21321.5%
- 3C. DHOBIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,87910.0%
- 4B. BAITHASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP2,6439.1%
- 5G. MAHARASwatantra Party · SWA9783.4%
- 6B.RAMJKD · JKD7822.7%
- 7S.N. RAMIndependent · IND4361.5%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −16.1%
- INC share
- 46.4% → 51.8%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 21.5%
- Turnout
- — → —