Constituency
43. Bongaigaon
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1972
AS-BONGAIGAON
INC 84.9%won by 79.4%IND 5.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.3% to 79.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.4% of the vote between them, up from 55.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
32,488
Margin
25,788
79.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1DHRUBA BARUAIndian National Congress · INC27,58184.9%
- 2ALAUDDIN AHMEDIndependent · IND1,7935.5%
- 3ARUN KUMAR ROYCommunist Party of India · CPI1,5324.7%
- 4BALI CHARAN SINGHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,1243.5%
- 5BENOY ROYSOP · SOP4581.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +67.1%
- INC share
- 33.9% → 84.9%
- IND share
- 21.6% → 5.5%
- Turnout
- — → —