Constituency
217. Nawanagar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1967
BR-NAWANAGAR
CPI 44.5%won by 4.6%INC 40.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.2% to 4.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.5% of the vote between them, up from 75.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
43,915
Margin
1,999
4.55%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1L. B. PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI19,56344.5%
- 2SITARAMIndian National Congress · INC17,56440.0%
- 3R. N. RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,80010.9%
- 4R. RAMIndependent · IND1,9884.5%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −0.7%
- CPI share
- 40.1% → 44.5%
- INC share
- 34.9% → 40.0%
- Turnout
- — → —