Constituency

11. Silchar

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Assam Assembly Election, 1972

AS-SILCHAR

INC 78.0%won by 56.7%CPM 21.2%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.3% to 56.7%.

New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 21.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.2% of the vote between them, up from 77.0% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

28,579

Margin

16,218

56.75%

3 contested · winner INC

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