Election
Constituency

114. Sonabarsa

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1972

BR-SONABARSA

SOP 52.4%won by 11.5%CPI 40.9%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to SOP (SOP), which now leads by 11.5%.

  • SOP vote shareSOP went from 0.0% to 52.4% of the vote here (+52.4%).
  • New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 40.9% — it did not contest here in 1969.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.2% of the vote between them, up from 65.4% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
53,458
Margin
6,139
11.48%

Since 1969

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
SOPflipped
SOPCPI swing
+11.5%
SOP share
0.0% 52.4%
CPI share
0.0% 40.9%
Turnout