Constituency
15. Dhaka
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-DHAKA
INC 33.2%won by 5.2%IND 28.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.0% to 5.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 28.0% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.2% between them, down from 78.4% — 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
56,062
Margin
2,931
5.23%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1HAFIZ IDRIS ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC18,61933.2%
- 2NEK MAHAMAD AKHTARIndependent · IND15,68828.0%
- 3SHYAM SUNDER THAKURNCO · NCO7,13012.7%
- 4CHANDRA DEO NARAINSOP · SOP6,42011.5%
- 5RAM BAHADUR PD. SINHABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,37011.4%
- 6D. M. YAKUBIndependent · IND1,2742.3%
- 7MAHAMAD SOELIndependent · IND5611.0%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −37.5%
- INC share
- 42.7% → 33.2%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 28.0%
- Turnout
- — → —