Winner, Votes & Party Details
Bihar Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Katihar Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1971 Results: Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav of BJS won with 96,422 votes, defeating Sita Ram Keshri of INC, who received 83,533 votes. Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav won by a margin of 12,889 votes, equivalent to 4.69% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 2,75,063.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
BJS
96,422
35.05%
83,533
30.37%
CPM
31,993
11.63%
MUL
29,008
10.55%
PSP
19,040
6.92%
HSD
6,214
2.26%
IND
2,284
0.83%
IND
2,280
0.83%
SHD
1,559
0.57%
SOC
1,537
0.56%
RCI
1,193
0.43%