Constituency
43. Chapra
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-CHAPRA
INC 43.4%won by 10.2%NCO 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.6% to 43.4% of the vote here (+12.8%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 33.3% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.7% of the vote between them, up from 62.9% — 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
69,629
Margin
7,068
10.15%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1JANAK YADAVIndian National Congress · INC30,24043.4%
- 2UDAI PRATAP N. SINGHNCO · NCO23,17233.3%
- 3LAL BABU ROYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,87019.9%
- 4PRAHALAD SINGHIndependent · IND1,1041.6%
- 5DHANJAYA PRASAD SINGHSOP · SOP9461.4%
- 6RAMESHWAR PRASAD RAJPALIndependent · IND2970.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −20.5%
- INC share
- 30.6% → 43.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- — → —