Constituency
279. Nirsa
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1967
BR-NIRSA
INC 32.3%won by 0.3%CPI 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.9% to 0.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Swatantra Party (SWA) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
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
26,407
Margin
72
0.27%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1R. N. SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC8,52932.3%
- 2N. BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India · CPI8,45732.0%
- 3R. R. TIWARYJKD · JKD5,30020.1%
- 4C. P. CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND2,3308.8%
- 5M. MURMUBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,1344.3%
- 6B. N. PRASADPraja Socialist Party · PSP6572.5%
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
- −11.3%
- INC share
- 36.4% → 32.3%
- CPI share
- 24.9% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —