Constituency
27. Siwan
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-SIWAN
BJS 42.9%won by 7.2%INC 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.6% to 7.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
57,606
Margin
4,147
7.20%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJS- 1JANARDAN TIWARYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS24,69442.9%
- 2RAJARAM CHAUDHURYIndian National Congress · INC20,54735.7%
- 3RAHIMULAH SHAEBIndependent · IND6,18810.7%
- 4BAIKISHUN SINGHIndependent · IND3,2585.7%
- 5BABU HUSAINNCO · NCO1,2152.1%
- 6CHANDRESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,2102.1%
- 7DURGA PRASAD SINHAIndependent · IND4940.9%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- BJS
- BJS–INC swing
- −6.4%
- BJS share
- 47.8% → 42.9%
- INC share
- 34.1% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- — → —