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267. Hazaribagh

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1969

BR-HAZARIBAGH

JAP 32.1%won by 8.6%IND 23.5%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: JKD (JKD) lost it to Jan Asra Party (JAP), which now leads by 8.6%.

  • JAP vote shareJAP went from 0.0% to 32.1% of the vote here (+32.1%).
  • New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 23.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.5% between them, down from 83.9% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
34,858
Margin
2,998
8.60%

Candidates

7 contested · winner JAP
  1. 1RAGHUNANDAN PRASADJan Asra Party · JAP11,17932.1%
  2. 2MD. RAFIQUEIndependent · IND8,18123.5%
  3. 3PT. HARINANDAN SHUKLABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,86222.6%
  4. 4GYANI RAMIndian National Congress · INC5,59216.0%
  5. 5BHUNESHWAR PD . MAHTOCommunist Party of India · CPI1,7635.1%
  6. 6JOHN PANKAJIndependent · IND1920.6%
  7. 7AMIR MAZAHARIndependent · IND890.3%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
JKD
Winner now
JAPflipped
JAP–IND swing
+8.6%
JAP share
0.0% → 32.1%
IND share
0.0% → 23.5%
Turnout
— → —
266. Barhi268. Chauparan
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