Constituency
116. Murliganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-MURLIGANJ
BJS 31.4%won by 8.5%SOP 22.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 8.5%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 11.8% to 31.4% of the vote here (+19.6%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 22.9% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 54.3% of the vote between them, up from 30.5% — 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
63,400
Margin
5,396
8.51%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJS- 1RAJ NANDAU PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS19,90331.4%
- 2SHASHI NATH JHASOP · SOP14,50722.9%
- 3KAMLESHWARI PD. YADAVIndian National Congress · INC10,50216.6%
- 4SUKHDEO PD. SINGHNCO · NCO9,88515.6%
- 5SOOKHDEO DASIndependent · IND1,9423.1%
- 6KULANAND SAHAIndependent · IND1,8943.0%
- 7RAMNARESH KUMAR YADAVCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,7012.7%
- 8KEDAR NATH YADAVIndependent · IND1,6112.5%
- 9MAHAVIR PD. MANDALIndependent · IND1,4552.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–SOP swing
- −3.3%
- BJS share
- 11.8% → 31.4%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 22.9%
- Turnout
- — → —