Constituency
2. Bagaha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BAGAHA
INC 66.4%won by 42.8%SOP 23.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 24.5% to 42.8%.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 23.6% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.0% of the vote between them, up from 81.7% — 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
40,995
Margin
17,539
42.78%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1NARSINGH BAITHAIndian National Congress · INC27,21666.4%
- 2SUWARN BAITHASOP · SOP9,67723.6%
- 3RAMSHARANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,10210.0%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −10.3%
- INC share
- 53.1% → 66.4%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 23.6%
- Turnout
- — → —