Constituency
277. Dhanbad
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-DHANBAD
BKD 37.8%won by 11.6%CPI 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bhartiya Krishak Dal (BKD), which now leads by 11.6%.
- BKD vote shareBKD went from 0.0% to 37.8% of the vote here (+37.8%).
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
44,357
Margin
5,128
11.56%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BKD- 1RAGHUBANS SINGHBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD16,78537.8%
- 2CHINMDY MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI11,65726.3%
- 3RAMDHANI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC10,08822.7%
- 4NIRMAL KUMAR CHATTERJEEBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,4797.8%
- 5RAM DEO SINGHRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP8631.9%
- 6ANAND MOHAN PRASADSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP5411.2%
- 7MADAM MOHAN JESWALBCP · BCP2730.6%
- 8KAMESHWAR PRASADSHD · SHD2660.6%
- 9JAGIR SINGHIndependent · IND2320.5%
- 10DAHU SAHIndependent · IND1730.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BKDflipped
- BKD–CPI swing
- +44.0%
- BKD share
- 0.0% → 37.8%
- CPI share
- 32.5% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —