Constituency
8. Bettiah
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BETTIAH
INC 34.0%won by 3.1%BJS 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.8% to 3.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.0% between them, down from 92.0% — 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
48,904
Margin
1,512
3.09%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KIRSHNA MOHAN PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC16,64634.0%
- 2GOPA JEE RAIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS15,13430.9%
- 3SATTENDRA NARAIN MITRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,98224.5%
- 4RAM KUMAR JHUNJHUNWALANCO · NCO3,8827.9%
- 5SYED ABDUL AZIZSwatantra Party · SWA1,2602.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −14.7%
- INC share
- 54.9% → 34.0%
- BJS share
- 37.1% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —