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154. Poraiyahat

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1969

BR-PORAIYAHAT

PHJ 37.6%won by 10.7%SSP 27.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to PHJ (PHJ), which now leads by 10.7%.

  • PHJ vote sharePHJ went from 0.0% to 37.6% of the vote here (+37.6%).
  • New challengerSamyukta Socialist Party (SSP) finished second with 27.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 64.6% of the vote between them, up from 48.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
29,787
Margin
3,179
10.67%

Candidates

5 contested · winner PHJ
  1. 1EDWARD MARANDIPHJ · PHJ11,20937.6%
  2. 2CHUNKA HEMBROMSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP8,03027.0%
  3. 3SHIV CHARAN HANSDABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,43518.2%
  4. 4DEVI SORENIndian National Congress · INC4,48415.1%
  5. 5RAGDA MURMUIndependent · IND6292.1%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
BJS
Winner now
PHJflipped
PHJ–SSP swing
+10.7%
PHJ share
0.0% → 37.6%
SSP share
0.0% → 27.0%
Turnout
— → —
153. Jama155. Godda
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