Constituency
21. Gobindganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-GOBINDGANJ
INC 50.0%won by 18.6%NCO 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 18.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.7% to 50.0% of the vote here (+15.3%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 31.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.3% of the vote between them, up from 69.5% — 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
47,340
Margin
8,823
18.64%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1RAMASHANKAR PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC23,66550.0%
- 2MAUAN MOHAN PD. SINGHNCO · NCO14,84231.4%
- 3UMAKANT SHUKULCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,5419.6%
- 4RAJESHWAR PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,6647.7%
- 5VIDYAKANT DUWEYSOP · SOP6281.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −16.0%
- INC share
- 34.7% → 50.0%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —