Constituency
24. Kateya
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-KATEYA
INC 60.2%won by 43.2%JAP 17.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 30.3% to 43.2%.
- New challengerJan Asra Party (JAP) finished second with 17.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
27,174
Margin
11,732
43.17%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1NATHUNI RAM CHAMARIndian National Congress · INC16,35260.2%
- 2ALGU RAMJan Asra Party · JAP4,62017.0%
- 3SMT. MANJU RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,45612.7%
- 4GOPAL MAHRABhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD1,8696.9%
- 5BADRI MAHRAIndependent · IND8773.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JAP swing
- −8.6%
- INC share
- 51.8% → 60.2%
- JAP share
- 0.0% → 17.0%
- Turnout
- — → —