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61. Muzaffarpur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1972

BR-MUZAFFARPUR

CPI 52.2%won by 16.0%BJS 36.2%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.1% to 16.0%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.3% of the vote between them, up from 69.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
67,222
Margin
10,766
16.02%

Candidates

7 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1RAMDEVA SHARMACommunist Party of India · CPI35,07152.2%
  2. 2AKHAURI RAJENDRA PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS24,30536.2%
  3. 3NAND KISHORE SUKALACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,5335.3%
  4. 4THAKUR PRASAD SINGHNCO · NCO2,7274.1%
  5. 5CHANDRIKA PRASAD THAKURSUC · SUC1,1231.7%
  6. 6THAKUR RAJESHIndependent · IND2400.4%
  7. 7SOMNATH MISHRAIndependent · IND2230.3%

Since 1969

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPI–BJS swing
+14.0%
CPI share
35.6% → 52.2%
BJS share
33.5% → 36.2%
Turnout
— → —
60. Sakra62. Bochaha
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