Constituency
71. Majorganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-MAJORGANJ
SSP 44.6%won by 19.8%BJS 24.8%
What changed here
DerivedSamyukta Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.4% to 19.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.5% between them, down from 83.9% — 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
43,272
Margin
8,556
19.77%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SSP- 1RAM BRIKCHH RAMSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP19,30744.6%
- 2RAM LAKHAN CHAUDHARYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS10,75124.8%
- 3JAGDEO RAMIndian National Congress · INC10,54424.4%
- 4RAM SWAROOP RAMBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD2,6706.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- SSP
- SSP–BJS swing
- −27.3%
- SSP share
- 59.6% → 44.6%
- BJS share
- 12.6% → 24.8%
- Turnout
- — → —