Constituency
75. Benipatti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BENIPATTI
CPI 47.6%won by 11.2%SOP 36.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 11.2%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 31.3% to 47.6% of the vote here (+16.4%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 36.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.1% of the vote between them, up from 68.7% — 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
65,258
Margin
7,307
11.20%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1TEJ NARAYAN JHACommunist Party of India · CPI31,08347.6%
- 2BAIDYA NATH JHASOP · SOP23,77636.4%
- 3HARUN RASIDBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,65314.8%
- 4LAXMI PRADHANNCO · NCO7461.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–SOP swing
- −20.1%
- CPI share
- 31.3% → 47.6%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 36.4%
- Turnout
- — → —