Constituency
18. Kesaria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-KESARIA
CPI 51.6%won by 14.8%INC 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 14.8%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 38.2% to 51.6% of the vote here (+13.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.3% of the vote between them, up from 82.7% — 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
45,166
Margin
6,697
14.83%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1PITAMBAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI23,28551.6%
- 2EJAZ HUSSAIN KHANIndian National Congress · INC16,58836.7%
- 3SHYAM BABU PRASADNCO · NCO4,2639.4%
- 4FULENA PRASADSOP · SOP1,0302.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +21.1%
- CPI share
- 38.2% → 51.6%
- INC share
- 44.5% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- — → —