Constituency
19. Pipra
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-PIPRA
CPI 63.3%won by 39.9%INC 23.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 39.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 35.0% to 63.3% of the vote here (+28.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.6% of the vote between them, up from 81.0% — 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
26,301
Margin
10,499
39.92%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1TULSI RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI16,64063.3%
- 2JAGARNATH PD. SINGHIndian National Congress · INC6,14123.3%
- 3JAI LAL RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,8477.0%
- 4RAM SHRAY BALTHANCO · NCO9703.7%
- 5FULGENI RAMBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD2931.1%
- 6CHINTAMAN BALTHASOP · SOP2891.1%
- 7NARAIN RAMIndependent · IND1210.5%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +50.8%
- CPI share
- 35.0% → 63.3%
- INC share
- 45.9% → 23.3%
- Turnout
- — → —