Constituency
101. Bibhutpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BIBHUTPUR
INC 45.3%won by 23.1%NCO 22.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 23.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.7% to 45.3% of the vote here (+20.6%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 22.2% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.5% of the vote between them, up from 57.6% — 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
68,609
Margin
15,857
23.11%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1BANDHU MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC31,09545.3%
- 2SHAMBLU NARAINNCO · NCO15,23822.2%
- 3GANGA PRASAD SHRIVASTAVASOP · SOP6,7159.8%
- 4ASWANI RAIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,6559.7%
- 5SAUDAGAR RAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,9377.2%
- 6CHANDRA SHEKHAR SHASHTRIIndependent · IND2,1343.1%
- 7UMA SHANKAR JHAIndependent · IND1,8352.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −1.6%
- INC share
- 24.7% → 45.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 22.2%
- Turnout
- — → —