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279. Nirsa

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1969

BR-NIRSA

CPI 41.4%won by 19.3%INC 22.1%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 19.3%.

  • CPI vote shareCPI went from 32.0% to 41.4% of the vote here (+9.3%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
32,360
Margin
6,250
19.31%

Candidates

9 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1NIRMALENDU BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India · CPI13,38741.4%
  2. 2BRAJ MOHAN SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC7,13722.1%
  3. 3PHANI BHUSAN BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND5,09515.7%
  4. 4RAM RATAN TEWARYJan Asra Party · JAP3,58811.1%
  5. 5MOHENDRA JHASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1,1193.5%
  6. 6MRIGANKA SHEKHAR DUTTABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,0593.3%
  7. 7CHANDER DEEP SINGHSHD · SHD4341.3%
  8. 8DEBEN BAURIIndependent · IND4071.3%
  9. 9VIRENDRA KUMAR DEYPBI · PBI1340.4%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
CPIflipped
CPI–INC swing
+19.6%
CPI share
32.0% → 41.4%
INC share
32.3% → 22.1%
Turnout
— → —
278. Tundi280. Sindri
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