Constituency
51. Patepur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-PATEPUR
CPI 49.2%won by 5.5%SOP 43.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.5%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 49.2% of the vote here (+49.2%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 43.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.9% of the vote between them, up from 86.0% — 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
45,149
Margin
2,469
5.47%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1RIGHAN RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI22,21049.2%
- 2PALTAN RAMSOP · SOP19,74143.7%
- 3BACHULAL AZADNCO · NCO2,2885.1%
- 4SAUKHI LAL DASIndependent · IND9102.0%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–SOP swing
- +5.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 49.2%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 43.7%
- Turnout
- — → —