Constituency
40. Taraiya
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-TARAIYA
INC 54.5%won by 37.1%BJS 17.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Jan Asra Party (JAP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 37.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.3% to 54.5% of the vote here (+25.1%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.8% of the vote between them, up from 60.5% — 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
62,855
Margin
23,323
37.11%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PRABHU NATH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC34,22754.5%
- 2RAM DAS ROYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS10,90417.3%
- 3DHARM NATH SINGHSOP · SOP6,91411.0%
- 4JAY NARAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND4,2956.8%
- 5PRABHU NARAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND3,0244.8%
- 6AJAB NARAYAN SINGHNCO · NCO2,7474.4%
- 7BANBIR KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND7441.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- JAP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +14.1%
- INC share
- 29.3% → 54.5%
- BJS share
- 6.4% → 17.3%
- Turnout
- — → —