Constituency
69. Jainagar
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-JAINAGAR
CPI 35.0%won by 9.1%INC 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.5% to 9.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.0% between them, down from 83.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,26,757
Turnout
54.3%
Valid votes
3,40,491
Margin
30,930
9.08%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1BHOGENDRA JHACommunist Party of India · CPI1,19,33335.0%
- 2MAHENDRA NARAIN JHAIndian National Congress · INC88,40326.0%
- 3BALIRAJ YADAVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS74,76622.0%
- 4SURYA NARAIN SINGHIndependent · IND39,17111.5%
- 5ANIRUDH SINGHNCO · NCO7,1382.1%
- 6MAHENDRA THAKURFBL · FBL6,1551.8%
- 7BHAGIRATH JHAIndependent · IND2,6240.8%
- 8SIYARAM YADAVIndependent · IND1,7460.5%
- 9NAGESHWAR MISHRAIndependent · IND1,1550.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −9.4%
- CPI share
- 51.2% → 35.0%
- INC share
- 32.6% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- 54.5% → 54.3%