Constituency
314. Garhwa
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-GARHWA
BJS 43.8%won by 9.5%SSP 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 9.5%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 14.1% to 43.8% of the vote here (+29.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.1% of the vote between them, up from 64.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
33,070
Margin
3,153
9.53%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJS- 1GOPI NATH SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS14,48743.8%
- 2BINOD NARAYAN DIXITSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP11,33434.3%
- 3LAXMI PRASADIndian National Congress · INC4,45513.5%
- 4JADU NANDAN TEWARIBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD1,0853.3%
- 5NABIRASHOOL KHANIndependent · IND1,0063.0%
- 6GANESH PRASAD SINGHJan Asra Party · JAP7032.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–SSP swing
- +23.3%
- BJS share
- 14.1% → 43.8%
- SSP share
- 27.9% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- — → —