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5. Patharkandi

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Assam Assembly Election, 1972

AS-PATHARKANDI

INC 47.7%won by 14.7%IND 33.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.7%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 37.4% to 47.7% of the vote here (+10.4%).
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
35,884
Margin
5,290
14.74%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1BISWANATH UPADHYAYIndian National Congress · INC17,12647.7%
  2. 2MAHABUBUR ROB CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND11,83633.0%
  3. 3BIRESH MISRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,88210.8%
  4. 4SONA CHAND SINGHAIndependent · IND1,5284.3%
  5. 5MRINAL KANTI DASGUPTACommunist Party of India · CPI1,5124.2%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–IND swing
+21.6%
INC share
37.4% → 47.7%
IND share
44.3% → 33.0%
Turnout
— → —
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