Constituency
177. Jamalpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-JAMALPUR
CPI 27.0%won by 0.2%BJS 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 0.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 103 votes (0.17%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 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
58,916
Margin
103
0.17%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1RAM BALAK SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI15,88027.0%
- 2SURESH KUMAR SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS15,77726.8%
- 3BHAGWAT YADAVSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP14,11424.0%
- 4YOGENDRA MAHTOIndian National Congress · INC10,05417.1%
- 5BHAGWAT MANDALSHD · SHD2,1823.7%
- 6DWARIKA TANTIIndependent · IND7411.3%
- 7GOPAL PD. GUPTAIndependent · IND1680.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–BJS swing
- −6.0%
- CPI share
- 25.8% → 27.0%
- BJS share
- 19.6% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- — → —