Constituency
8. Badarpur
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1972
AS-BADARPUR
INC 43.3%won by 8.3%IND 35.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.5% to 8.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.3% between them, down from 91.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
36,456
Margin
3,037
8.33%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1M. A. JALIL CHOUDHURYIndian National Congress · INC15,78843.3%
- 2RAMENDRA KUMAR DEIndependent · IND12,75135.0%
- 3SK MOHAMMAD ALIIndependent · IND7,91721.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +0.9%
- INC share
- 49.7% → 43.3%
- IND share
- 42.2% → 35.0%
- Turnout
- — → —