Constituency
16. Barkhola
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1972
AS-BARKHOLA
INC 58.9%won by 21.2%IND 37.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.9% to 21.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 78.2% — 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
31,919
Margin
6,778
21.24%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1DR. LUTFUR RAHMANIndian National Congress · INC18,81658.9%
- 2JALAD BORAN DEB LASKARIndependent · IND12,03837.7%
- 3NARESH CHANDRA DASIndependent · IND1,0653.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −18.2%
- INC share
- 51.1% → 58.9%
- IND share
- 11.6% → 37.7%
- Turnout
- — → —