Constituency
56. Chaygaon
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1972
AS-CHAYGAON
INC 49.9%won by 19.4%IND 30.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.8% to 19.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.3% of the vote between them, up from 66.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
37,485
Margin
7,279
19.42%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SATYAVATI GOSSAMIIndian National Congress · INC18,68749.9%
- 2A. N. AKRAM HUSSAINIndependent · IND11,40830.4%
- 3SURJYA KANTA KALITAIndependent · IND4,78512.8%
- 4JAYANADABHIRAM SAIKIAIndependent · IND2,6056.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −1.4%
- INC share
- 43.6% → 49.9%
- IND share
- 22.8% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- — → —