Constituency
125. Araria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1967
BR-ARARIA
INC 34.7%won by 12.7%BJS 22.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.5% to 34.7% of the vote here (+12.2%).
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 22.0% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.7% between them, down from 64.6% — 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
43,648
Margin
5,560
12.74%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1S.P. GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC15,15134.7%
- 2J. JHABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,59122.0%
- 3AZAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP7,80117.9%
- 4N.L. MANDALIndependent · IND4,88011.2%
- 5T. ARFINIndependent · IND4,0039.2%
- 6NASIRUDDINSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP2,2225.1%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- −9.7%
- INC share
- 22.5% → 34.7%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 22.0%
- Turnout
- — → —