Constituency
56. Sahebganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-SAHEBGANJ
INC 34.1%won by 7.3%CPM 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.2% to 34.1% of the vote here (−10.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 26.8% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.8% between them, down from 97.0% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
64,477
Margin
4,701
7.29%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SHEO SHARAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC21,96134.1%
- 2BHAGYAN NARAIN RAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,26026.8%
- 3SHYAM KUMAR PD. SINGHIndependent · IND12,57419.5%
- 4ANAND BIHARI SINGHSOP · SOP5,5428.6%
- 5CHANDRA MADHAV PD. SINGHIndependent · IND3,3045.1%
- 6YADUNANDAN SINGHNCO · NCO2,2363.5%
- 7CHANDRESHVAR PRASADIndependent · IND8211.3%
- 8LAL NARAIN SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7791.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −36.9%
- INC share
- 44.2% → 34.1%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- — → —