Constituency
140. Borio
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BORIO
PHJ 52.7%won by 25.2%INC 27.5%
What changed here
DerivedPHJ held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.1% to 25.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.3% of the vote between them, up from 56.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatPHJ won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
31,772
Margin
8,007
25.20%
Candidates
9 contested · winner PHJ- 1SET HEMRAMPHJ · PHJ16,75852.7%
- 2SHIB MARANDIIndian National Congress · INC8,75127.5%
- 3BHOLA SINGHIndependent · IND1,6415.2%
- 4POLUS HEMRAMJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,2453.9%
- 5GOLHI MARANDIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,1193.5%
- 6LAKHI RAM MURMUNCO · NCO9853.1%
- 7SHIB ATAN KISKUIndependent · IND6932.2%
- 8WARME DEVAR HEMRAMSOP · SOP3801.2%
- 9TUILA DOTHI HEMRAMSwatantra Party · SWA2000.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- PHJ
- Winner now
- PHJ
- PHJ–INC swing
- +14.1%
- PHJ share
- 33.6% → 52.7%
- INC share
- 22.5% → 27.5%
- Turnout
- — → —