Constituency
37. Gossaigaon
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1972
AS-GOSSAIGAON
INC 66.3%won by 49.2%IND 17.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 40.6% to 49.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.4% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
33,537
Margin
16,503
49.21%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MATHIAS TURUIndian National Congress · INC22,24266.3%
- 2MATHIAS MARANDIIndependent · IND5,73917.1%
- 3AMIYA KUMAR BRAHMANCO · NCO4,09312.2%
- 4RAMENDRA B. CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND1,4634.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +8.7%
- INC share
- 70.3% → 66.3%
- IND share
- 29.7% → 17.1%
- Turnout
- — → —