Constituency
162. Bihpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-BIHPUR
CPI 33.5%won by 4.5%BJS 29.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 4.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.5% between them, down from 78.0% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
69,756
Margin
3,153
4.52%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1PRABHU NARAYAN ROYCommunist Party of India · CPI23,36133.5%
- 2GYANESHWAR PRASAD YADAVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS20,20829.0%
- 3RAJENDRA PRASAD SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC8,21011.8%
- 4ARJUN PRASAD MISRALTC · LTC8,08311.6%
- 5BHUBNESHWAR MANDALSHD · SHD7,24710.4%
- 6JANARDAN CHOUDHRYSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1,1481.6%
- 7JAI NARAYAN MISRABhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD1,0501.5%
- 8RAM SWARUP PASWANPBI · PBI4490.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–BJS swing
- +11.3%
- CPI share
- 35.6% → 33.5%
- BJS share
- 42.4% → 29.0%
- Turnout
- — → —