Constituency
35. Baikunthpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BAIKUNTHPUR
SOP 59.0%won by 40.0%IND 19.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to SOP (SOP), which now leads by 40.0%.
- SOP vote shareSOP went from 0.0% to 59.0% of the vote here (+59.0%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 19.0% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.9% between them, down from 97.1% — 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
62,694
Margin
25,058
39.97%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SOP- 1SABHAPATI SINGHSOP · SOP36,95959.0%
- 2HARENDRA NATH PRASADIndependent · IND11,90119.0%
- 3SHEO BACHAN TRIVEDIIndian National Congress · INC10,09416.1%
- 4BACHA RAIIndependent · IND3,2915.2%
- 5BISHWANATHIndependent · IND4490.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SOPflipped
- SOP–IND swing
- +40.0%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 59.0%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 19.0%
- Turnout
- — → —