Constituency
82. Rajnagar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-RAJNAGAR
INC 57.1%won by 22.9%SOP 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.9% to 22.9%.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 34.2% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.4% of the vote between them, up from 61.6% — 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
58,633
Margin
13,419
22.89%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BILAT PASWANIndian National Congress · INC33,49857.1%
- 2BILATU RAMSOP · SOP20,07934.2%
- 3AYODHI PASWANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,4307.6%
- 4RAMPRAKASH PASWANNCO · NCO6261.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −9.8%
- INC share
- 32.7% → 57.1%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- — → —