Constituency
261. Jamua
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-JAMUA
INC 31.8%won by 4.9%BJS 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.1% to 4.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.6% between them, down from 78.1% — 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
36,966
Margin
1,819
4.92%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SADANAND PRASADIndian National Congress · INC11,73831.8%
- 2RITLAL PRASAD VERMABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,91926.8%
- 3NAGESHWAR PRASAD SINGHJan Asra Party · JAP8,25622.3%
- 4NANDAL GOPECommunist Party of India · CPI4,06111.0%
- 5GOPIN SORENPHJ · PHJ1,7374.7%
- 6GOPENDU BHATTACHARYASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1,2553.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −30.2%
- INC share
- 56.6% → 31.8%
- BJS share
- 21.5% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- — → —