Constituency
63. Gaighatti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-GAIGHATTI
INC 54.1%won by 9.4%NCO 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.6% to 9.4%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 44.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 65.8% — 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
69,721
Margin
6,544
9.39%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1NITESHWAR PRASAD SINHAIndian National Congress · INC37,68754.1%
- 2JITENDRA PRASAD SINGHNCO · NCO31,14344.7%
- 3RAMADGAR KUMARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8911.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −30.3%
- INC share
- 39.7% → 54.1%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- — → —