Constituency
26. Mirganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-MIRGANJ
INC 41.4%won by 18.4%NCO 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.4% to 18.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 23.0% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.5% between them, down from 74.1% — 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
54,816
Margin
10,089
18.41%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1ANANT PD. SINGHIndian National Congress · INC22,72141.4%
- 2BIJAY BAHADUR SINGHNCO · NCO12,63223.0%
- 3S. M. ABDLAHSOP · SOP12,50822.8%
- 4VISHWANATH SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,59810.2%
- 5RAMA SHANKAR RAOBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,3572.5%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −30.3%
- INC share
- 48.8% → 41.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —