Constituency
10. Raxaul
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-RAXAUL
INC 38.1%won by 4.5%SOP 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.9% to 4.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 33.6% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.8% between them, down from 84.7% — 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
48,815
Margin
2,197
4.50%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SAGHIR AHMADIndian National Congress · INC18,61438.1%
- 2SHANKAR PD. YADAVSOP · SOP16,41733.6%
- 3RADHA PANDEYNCO · NCO11,49623.6%
- 4DEONARAIN PRASADIndependent · IND1,3812.8%
- 5SHYAM SUNDER PD. YADAVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9071.9%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −45.8%
- INC share
- 50.3% → 38.1%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- — → —