Constituency
262. Giridih
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1967
BR-GIRIDIH
INC 36.7%won by 5.6%CPI 31.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.8% to 5.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.8% of the vote between them, up from 58.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
42,988
Margin
2,418
5.62%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1R. RAMIndian National Congress · INC15,78136.7%
- 2C. MISHRACommunist Party of India · CPI13,36331.1%
- 3S. S. BAGARIAIndependent · IND7,22116.8%
- 4P. D. LOHANIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,85413.6%
- 5J. UDDINIndependent · IND7691.8%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −10.2%
- INC share
- 37.1% → 36.7%
- CPI share
- 21.2% → 31.1%
- Turnout
- — → —