Constituency
71. Majorganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-MAJORGANJ
INC 28.4%won by 0.8%SOP 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.4% to 28.4% of the vote here (+4.1%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 27.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.1% between them, down from 69.5% — 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
48,837
Margin
377
0.77%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SURENDRA RAMIndian National Congress · INC13,88828.4%
- 2RAM BRIKSHA RAMSOP · SOP13,51127.7%
- 3SHEO PASWANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS11,75324.1%
- 4UPENDRA RAMNCO · NCO9,68519.8%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −23.6%
- INC share
- 24.4% → 28.4%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —