Constituency
225. Dehri
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-DEHRI
INC 31.2%won by 5.0%PSP 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.0% to 5.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.5% between them, down from 63.3% — 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
61,302
Margin
3,038
4.96%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1RIYASAT KARIMIndian National Congress · INC19,14631.2%
- 2BASAWAN SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP16,10826.3%
- 3BASUDEO NARAIN SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS11,24218.3%
- 4RAMJEE PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI6,57110.7%
- 5SIDHNATH SINGHSHD · SHD4,7907.8%
- 6MANGAL CHOUDHARYBCP · BCP1,9783.2%
- 7JANKI RAMIndependent · IND1,0861.8%
- 8GOPI PRASAD SINGHBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD3810.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −9.0%
- INC share
- 38.6% → 31.2%
- PSP share
- 24.6% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —