Constituency
47. Sorbhog
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1972
AS-SORBHOG
INC 38.2%won by 15.1%CPM 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.4% to 15.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.3% between them, down from 85.3% — 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
37,912
Margin
5,733
15.12%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PRANITA TALUKDARIndian National Congress · INC14,48538.2%
- 2HEMENDRA NATH DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,75223.1%
- 3AFTAB HOSSENIndependent · IND6,58217.4%
- 4SHRIHARI BARMANIndependent · IND4,68412.4%
- 5GARGESWAR DASBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,5554.1%
- 6NARAYAN CHANDRA BASAKIndependent · IND1,4463.8%
- 7KRISHNA KANTA BARUANCO · NCO4081.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −28.9%
- INC share
- 57.3% → 38.2%
- CPM share
- 13.3% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- — → —