Constituency
27. Siwan
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-SIWAN
BJS 47.8%won by 13.6%INC 34.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 13.6%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 35.8% to 47.8% of the vote here (+12.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.9% of the vote between them, up from 72.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
53,841
Margin
7,335
13.62%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJS- 1JANARDAN TIWARYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS25,71147.8%
- 2RAJA RAM CHAUDHRYIndian National Congress · INC18,37634.1%
- 3RAGHAW PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI7,24613.5%
- 4MUNI LAL PRASADJan Asra Party · JAP1,2582.3%
- 5SURYA NARAIN SINGHLTC · LTC8851.6%
- 6BISHNU KUMAR SINHASwatantra Party · SWA3650.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–INC swing
- +14.8%
- BJS share
- 35.8% → 47.8%
- INC share
- 37.0% → 34.1%
- Turnout
- — → —