Constituency
189. Barauni
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-BARAUNI
CPI 48.0%won by 10.9%INC 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.3% to 10.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.0% between them, down from 96.4% — 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
68,564
Margin
7,507
10.95%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1CHANDRA SHEKHAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI32,90848.0%
- 2BISHWA NATH SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC25,40137.0%
- 3RAMJIWAN SINGHSHD · SHD5,4688.0%
- 4BAIJNATH CHOUDHARYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,7402.5%
- 5VIJOY SHANKAR TANTI AZADIndependent · IND1,6112.3%
- 6NESIM AHMADSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1,4362.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −1.4%
- CPI share
- 54.4% → 48.0%
- INC share
- 42.0% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- — → —