Constituency
5. Sikta
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-SIKTA
NCO 33.7%won by 2.1%CPM 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to NCO (NCO), which now leads by 2.1%.
- NCO vote shareNCO went from 0.0% to 33.7% of the vote here (+33.7%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from LTC (LTC) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.2% between them, down from 84.9% — 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
49,987
Margin
1,053
2.11%
Candidates
6 contested · winner NCO- 1FAIYAJULAZAMNCO · NCO16,82433.7%
- 2SHRI NIWAS PANDAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,77131.6%
- 3FAZLUR RAHAMANIndian National Congress · INC13,09726.2%
- 4SHEO SUJAN GIRIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,8353.7%
- 5BRAJNANDAN PANDAYIndependent · IND1,4843.0%
- 6KHURSHED ALAMIndependent · IND9762.0%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- NCOflipped
- NCO–CPM swing
- +8.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 33.7%
- CPM share
- 6.6% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —