Constituency
67. Sitamarhi
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-SITAMARHI
CPI 39.4%won by 8.9%NCO 30.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 8.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 23.3% to 39.4% of the vote here (+16.1%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 30.5% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 69.9% of the vote between them, up from 48.3% — 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
67,316
Margin
5,989
8.90%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1RAM SWARUP SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI26,52839.4%
- 2RAM SAGAR PRASAD YADAVNCO · NCO20,53930.5%
- 3BHAGWAN SHABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS12,93519.2%
- 4RAMESHWAR PRASADIndependent · IND3,1654.7%
- 5MAHAMAD SADIQUEIndependent · IND2,0813.1%
- 6RAM DEO RAISOP · SOP1,6962.5%
- 7RAJENDRA PRASAD YADAVIndependent · IND2380.4%
- 8SHEKHAR KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND1340.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–NCO swing
- −14.4%
- CPI share
- 23.3% → 39.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 30.5%
- Turnout
- — → —