Constituency
63. Gaighatti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-GAIGHATTI
INC 39.7%won by 13.6%IND 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.1% to 13.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.8% between them, down from 86.2% — the field split more ways.
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
62,480
Margin
8,519
13.63%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1NITISHWAR PRASAD SINHAIndian National Congress · INC24,80039.7%
- 2JITENDRA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND16,28126.1%
- 3HIND KESHARI YADAVAIndependent · IND10,18616.3%
- 4CHANDRA MOHAN MISHRACommunist Party of India · CPI8,04512.9%
- 5RAM LAKHAN CHOUDHARYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,9213.1%
- 6GARIB BHAIPraja Socialist Party · PSP8781.4%
- 7RAM SWARATH SINGHBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD3690.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +7.6%
- INC share
- 46.1% → 39.7%
- IND share
- 40.1% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- — → —