Constituency
100. Chatra
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-CHATRA
IND 34.6%won by 11.5%INC 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 11.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.0% to 34.6% of the vote here (+34.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,93,028
Turnout
38.9%
Valid votes
1,91,850
Margin
21,979
11.46%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1V. RAJEIndependent · IND66,32934.6%
- 2S. P. BHADANIIndian National Congress · INC44,35023.1%
- 3Y. SINGHSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP36,21018.9%
- 4S. PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS30,10015.7%
- 5R. N. GUPTAPraja Socialist Party · PSP14,8617.7%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +48.9%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 34.6%
- INC share
- 37.5% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- 37.1% → 38.9%