Election
Constituency

161. Gopalpur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1969

BR-GOPALPUR

INC 50.0%won by 17.3%CPI 32.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 17.3%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 31.0% to 50.0% of the vote here (+19.0%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.7% of the vote between them, up from 66.5% — 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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Valid votes
55,852
Margin
9,673
17.32%

Candidates

6 contested · winner INC
  1. 1MADAN PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC27,93550.0%
  2. 2MANIRAM SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI18,26232.7%
  3. 3YUDHISTHIR PRASAD MANDALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,92814.2%
  4. 4KAMDEV MISRAPBI · PBI9451.7%
  5. 5GULAB THAKURSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP4830.9%
  6. 6SARDA PD. SINGH SAIDPURILTC · LTC2990.5%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–CPI swing
+21.8%
INC share
31.0% → 50.0%
CPI share
35.5% → 32.7%
Turnout
— → —
160. Bhagalpur162. Bihpur
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