Constituency
119. Dhamdaha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-DHAMDAHA
INC 34.5%won by 11.3%IND 23.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 21.0% to 34.5% of the vote here (+13.5%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 57.7% of the vote between them, up from 44.6% — 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
56,696
Margin
6,406
11.30%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1JAI NARAYAN MEHTAIndian National Congress · INC19,55534.5%
- 2SURYA NARAIN SINGH YADAVIndependent · IND13,14923.2%
- 3KALIKA PRASAD SINGHSOP · SOP7,77913.7%
- 4KAMESHWAR PD. CHOUDHARYNCO · NCO5,79610.2%
- 5KEDAR NATH CHOUDHARYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,5596.3%
- 6LALITESH PATNAIKIndependent · IND2,0633.6%
- 7MANDAL MANJHIIndependent · IND1,8333.2%
- 8SATA KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,7683.1%
- 9RAJKISHOR PRASAD YADAVCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7921.4%
- 10RASIK KISKUIndependent · IND4020.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- +10.2%
- INC share
- 21.0% → 34.5%
- IND share
- 19.9% → 23.2%
- Turnout
- — → —