Constituency
93. Hojai
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1972
AS-HOJAI
INC 65.7%won by 45.9%IND 19.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 45.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.9% to 65.7% of the vote here (+34.8%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 19.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.5% of the vote between them, up from 63.4% — 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
42,119
Margin
19,350
45.94%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1IDRIS ALI FAKIRIndian National Congress · INC27,67765.7%
- 2DILIP DUTTIIndependent · IND8,32719.8%
- 3AFTARUDDINAHMEDCommunist Party of India · CPI4,43210.5%
- 4ABDUL KHALEQUE CHOUDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,4903.5%
- 5M. NASIR AHMMEDSOP · SOP1930.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- +15.0%
- INC share
- 30.9% → 65.7%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 19.8%
- Turnout
- — → —