Constituency
233. Arwal
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-ARWAL
CPI 31.8%won by 6.4%BJS 25.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.4% to 6.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 26.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 25.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.1% between them, down from 76.7% — 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
58,059
Margin
3,740
6.44%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1SHAH ZOHAIRCommunist Party of India · CPI18,45531.8%
- 2NUNOO CHANDRA BHASKERBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS14,71525.3%
- 3RAM CHARITER SINGHSHD · SHD14,46624.9%
- 4MD. ABUL QUAISIndian National Congress · INC5,4039.3%
- 5MADHO PRASADSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP4,7788.2%
- 6ABDUL RAZAKPraja Socialist Party · PSP2420.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–BJS swing
- −51.6%
- CPI share
- 58.1% → 31.8%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 25.3%
- Turnout
- — → —