Constituency
48. Raghopur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-RAGHOPUR
SOP 54.8%won by 32.9%BJS 21.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to SOP (SOP), which now leads by 32.9%.
- SOP vote shareSOP went from 0.0% to 54.8% of the vote here (+54.8%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.7% of the vote between them, up from 64.6% — 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
74,060
Margin
24,339
32.86%
Candidates
7 contested · winner SOP- 1BABU LAL SHASTRISOP · SOP40,56554.8%
- 2HARIBANSH NARAYAN SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS16,22621.9%
- 3RAM BRIKSH RAIIndian National Congress · INC7,43110.0%
- 4INDRA DEO SINGHNCO · NCO5,8507.9%
- 5UDAYA NARAYAN RAIIndependent · IND2,2553.0%
- 6RAM PRASAD DASIndependent · IND1,4922.0%
- 7ANARAS RAIIndependent · IND2410.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SOPflipped
- SOP–BJS swing
- +60.4%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 54.8%
- BJS share
- 27.5% → 21.9%
- Turnout
- — → —