Constituency
160. Bhagalpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1967
BR-BHAGALPUR
BJS 42.7%won by 16.7%JKD 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 16.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 0.0% to 42.7% of the vote here (+42.7%).
- New challengerJKD (JKD) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.6% between them, down from 75.3% — 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
37,706
Margin
6,311
16.74%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJS- 1B.K. MITRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS16,09842.7%
- 2A. HAMIDJKD · JKD9,78726.0%
- 3S.N. AGRAWALIndian National Congress · INC7,40919.6%
- 4P.K. SADHUCommunist Party of India · CPI1,7144.5%
- 5H.S. SAHAISamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1,1693.1%
- 6G. CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND7812.1%
- 7G.N. SHARMAIndependent · IND3651.0%
- 8B.L. JOSHIIndependent · IND2290.6%
- 9S.P. SHRIVASTAVAIndependent · IND1540.4%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–JKD swing
- +16.7%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 42.7%
- JKD share
- 0.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —