Constituency
74. Pupri
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-PUPRI
INC 38.6%won by 14.7%NCO 23.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.6% to 38.6% of the vote here (+9.1%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 23.9% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.5% between them, down from 92.0% — 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
71,343
Margin
10,488
14.70%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RAM BRIKSH CHOUDHERYIndian National Congress · INC27,54438.6%
- 2HABIB AHMADNCO · NCO17,05623.9%
- 3BABUUAJEE RAISOP · SOP16,79723.5%
- 4NAGEND NARAIN JHABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,94613.9%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −14.9%
- INC share
- 29.6% → 38.6%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 23.9%
- Turnout
- — → —