Constituency
81. Jhanjharpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-JHANJHARPUR
INC 69.8%won by 46.3%SOP 23.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 46.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 16.9% to 69.8% of the vote here (+52.9%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 23.5% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.4% of the vote between them, up from 73.8% — 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
78,879
Margin
36,542
46.33%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1JAGANNATH MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC55,08969.8%
- 2RAM PHAL CHAUDHARYSOP · SOP18,54723.5%
- 3TRIPATI NARAYAN JHAIndependent · IND1,9422.5%
- 4RAJENDRA JHABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,1661.5%
- 5RAM KRIPA YADAVIndependent · IND1,1371.4%
- 6GUNESHWAR SINGHNCO · NCO5080.6%
- 7VIJOY SHANKAR JHAIndependent · IND3380.4%
- 8ANANT LAL SAHUSwatantra Party · SWA890.1%
- 9KEDAR NATH JHAIndependent · IND630.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- +29.4%
- INC share
- 16.9% → 69.8%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 23.5%
- Turnout
- — → —