Constituency
65. Minapur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-MINAPUR
NCO 41.5%won by 10.6%IND 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to NCO (NCO), which now leads by 10.6%.
- NCO vote shareNCO went from 0.0% to 41.5% of the vote here (+41.5%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 30.9% — it polled just 0.6% in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.3% between them, down from 90.6% — the field split more ways.
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
74,130
Margin
7,840
10.58%
Candidates
5 contested · winner NCO- 1MAHANTH RAMKISHORE DASNCO · NCO30,73041.5%
- 2RAMSANJIWAN RAIIndependent · IND22,89030.9%
- 3MAHENDRA SAHANIIndian National Congress · INC17,53523.7%
- 4GANESH PRASAD SINGHSOP · SOP1,6412.2%
- 5KAMALA KANT SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,3341.8%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- NCOflipped
- NCO–IND swing
- +11.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 41.5%
- IND share
- 0.6% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —