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250. Gaya

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1969

BR-GAYA

BJS 37.1%won by 10.1%INC 27.0%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.3% to 10.1%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 64.1% of the vote between them, up from 55.7% — a tighter two-way contest.

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
49,118
Margin
4,944
10.07%

Candidates

6 contested · winner BJS
  1. 1GOPAL MISHRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS18,21737.1%
  2. 2RAI BAGESHWARI PRASADIndian National Congress · INC13,27327.0%
  3. 3SARDAR M . L . RAHMANIndependent · IND13,05926.6%
  4. 4MANI BHUSAN PRAKASHCommunist Party of India · CPI3,5637.3%
  5. 5SHISHIR KUMAR SINHASwatantra Party · SWA5791.2%
  6. 6RAJ KISHORE SINGHIndependent · IND4270.9%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
BJS
Winner now
BJS
BJS–INC swing
−6.5%
BJS share
34.5% → 37.1%
INC share
17.9% → 27.0%
Turnout
— → —
249. Konch251. Gaya Muffasil
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