Constituency
218. Buxar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-BUXAR
INC 37.0%won by 8.4%CPI 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.4% to 37.0% of the vote here (+6.6%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 28.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.5% between them, down from 82.1% — 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
53,679
Margin
4,518
8.42%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1JAGNARAIN TRIVEDIIndian National Congress · INC19,84837.0%
- 2JYOTI PRAKASHCommunist Party of India · CPI15,33028.6%
- 3PRANAV CHATTERJEESamyukta Socialist Party · SSP9,67818.0%
- 4BIRENDRA KUMAR RAIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,28113.6%
- 5PARSHURAM PRASADSHD · SHD6661.2%
- 6JAGANNATH PRASAD KESRISwatantra Party · SWA6361.2%
- 7AWADHESH KUMAR PANDEBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD2400.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −22.0%
- INC share
- 30.4% → 37.0%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 28.6%
- Turnout
- — → —