Constituency
114. Sonabarsa
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-SONABARSA
SOP 52.4%won by 11.5%CPI 40.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
53,458
Margin
6,139
11.48%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SOP- 1JAGESHWAR HAZRASOP · SOP27,98752.4%
- 2DEO NARAYAN PASWANCommunist Party of India · CPI21,84840.9%
- 3YASHODA DEVIIndependent · IND1,8143.4%
- 4JAGESHWAR RAMNCO · NCO1,0852.0%
- 5KAMLESHWARI PASWANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7241.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SOPflipped
- SOP–CPI swing
- +11.5%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 52.4%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 40.9%
- Turnout
- — → —