Constituency
256. Warsaliganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-WARSALIGANJ
CPI 39.6%won by 10.2%BJS 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.2% to 10.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.1% between them, down from 75.6% — 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
59,237
Margin
6,021
10.16%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1DEO NANDAN PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI23,47639.6%
- 2RAM RATAN SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS17,45529.5%
- 3MD. WALI ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC7,80213.2%
- 4MAHABIR YADAVSHD · SHD6,03910.2%
- 5SADASHIVA SINGHIndependent · IND1,8653.1%
- 6VRAHMDEO SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,2782.2%
- 7BHAGIRATH PRASADJan Asra Party · JAP8051.4%
- 8NAURANGI DASIndependent · IND5170.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–BJS swing
- −13.1%
- CPI share
- 45.4% → 39.6%
- BJS share
- 22.1% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- — → —