Constituency
137. Barari
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BARARI
INC 44.9%won by 12.5%SOP 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.0% to 44.9% of the vote here (+24.9%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 32.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.3% of the vote between them, up from 50.8% — 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
48,708
Margin
6,078
12.48%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MUHAMAD SAKOORIndian National Congress · INC21,85344.9%
- 2MAHEDRA NARAYAN YADAVSOP · SOP15,77532.4%
- 3JIBNESHWAR PRASAD SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,40011.1%
- 4INDRANAN MANDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,8597.9%
- 5RAM SAGAR MANDALNCO · NCO1,8213.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −7.5%
- INC share
- 20.0% → 44.9%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —