Constituency
12. Motihari
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-MOTIHARI
INC 39.5%won by 11.7%BJS 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 19.0% to 39.5% of the vote here (+20.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.2% between them, down from 73.9% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
37,016
Margin
4,315
11.66%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1RAM SEWAK PRASAD JAYASWALIndian National Congress · INC14,60439.5%
- 2CHANDRIKA PRASAD YADAVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS10,28927.8%
- 3BHOOP NARAIN SINHACommunist Party of India · CPI5,63515.2%
- 4RAMDAYAL PRASAD SINHASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP4,36811.8%
- 5KUMAR KAMALA SINHAJan Asra Party · JAP1,8695.0%
- 6SARAYUG PRASADPBI · PBI2510.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +47.5%
- INC share
- 19.0% → 39.5%
- BJS share
- 54.9% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- — → —