Constituency

100. Chatra

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971

IN-CHATRA

INC 43.2%won by 6.4%JAP 36.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.4%.

INC vote shareINC went from 23.1% to 43.2% of the vote here (+20.1%).
New challengerJan Asra Party (JAP) finished second with 36.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.1% of the vote between them, up from 57.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
TurnoutTurnout fell 10.2% to 28.7%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate

5,46,816

Turnout

28.7%

Valid votes

1,56,765

Margin

10,081

6.43%