Constituency
79. Katihar
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-KATIHAR
BJS 35.1%won by 4.7%INC 30.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 4.7%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 20.7% to 35.1% of the vote here (+14.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 65.4% of the vote between them, up from 44.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 48.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,63,718
Turnout
48.8%
Valid votes
2,75,063
Margin
12,889
4.69%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJS- 1GYANESHWAR PRASAD YADAVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS96,42235.1%
- 2SITA RAM KESHRIIndian National Congress · INC83,53330.4%
- 3RAMANAND SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM31,99311.6%
- 4IBRAHIMMUL · MUL29,00810.5%
- 5GUPTA PRIYAPraja Socialist Party · PSP19,0406.9%
- 6SITA RAM SINGHHindvi Swarajyay Dal · HSD6,2142.3%
- 7BHOLA PRASAD AGARWALIndependent · IND2,2840.8%
- 8SATYA NARAYAN PODDAR SAURAVIndependent · IND2,2800.8%
- 9SURYA NARAYAN YADAVSHD · SHD1,5590.6%
- 10RAM LAGAN RAISOC · SOC1,5370.6%
- 11LAKSHMI NARAYAN SINGHRCI · RCI1,1930.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–INC swing
- +6.6%
- BJS share
- 20.7% → 35.1%
- INC share
- 22.5% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- 52.3% → 48.8%