Constituency
50. Barpeta
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1972
AS-BARPETA
INC 63.8%won by 49.1%IND 14.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 49.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.9% to 63.8% of the vote here (+30.9%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 14.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.6% of the vote between them, up from 72.2% — 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
43,039
Margin
21,117
49.06%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SURENDRA NATH DASIndian National Congress · INC27,46563.8%
- 2PRANGOPAL CHANDRA DASIndependent · IND6,34814.7%
- 3PROMDE KUMAR CHOUDHURYCommunist Party of India · CPI4,2019.8%
- 4GOKUL PATHAKIndependent · IND2,1775.1%
- 5SAHIDULLAHIndependent · IND2,1054.9%
- 6MVI MUKHTAR ALIIndependent · IND7431.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- +16.1%
- INC share
- 32.9% → 63.8%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 14.7%
- Turnout
- — → —