Constituency
100. Sarairanjan
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-SARAIRANJAN
BJS 35.2%won by 3.9%SOP 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 3.9%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 15.1% to 35.2% of the vote here (+20.1%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 31.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.6% between them, down from 82.4% — 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
60,716
Margin
2,345
3.86%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJS- 1CHANDRESHWAR PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS21,39535.2%
- 2RAM BILASH MISHRASOP · SOP19,05031.4%
- 3RAMU AR CHOUDHARYIndian National Congress · INC16,48927.2%
- 4SURESH CHOURASIYANCO · NCO2,5194.1%
- 5SAMLUL HAQUEIndependent · IND8461.4%
- 6YOGENDRA JHASwatantra Party · SWA4170.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–SOP swing
- −11.3%
- BJS share
- 15.1% → 35.2%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —