Constituency
141. Barhait
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BARHAIT
IND 58.4%won by 41.9%PHJ 16.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: PHJ (PHJ) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 41.9%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 5.2% to 58.4% of the vote here (+53.2%).
- Safe seatIndependent 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
31,795
Margin
13,326
41.91%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1MASIH SORENIndependent · IND18,56658.4%
- 2LAJRAS LAKHAN BASKIPHJ · PHJ5,24016.5%
- 3JAI BI BESRAIndian National Congress · INC4,85815.3%
- 4MISI MARANDISwatantra Party · SWA1,3854.4%
- 5MAISA SINGH PAHARIAIndependent · IND8852.8%
- 6BABURAM TUDUBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5551.7%
- 7MOHAN HEMRAMJan Kalyan Party · JKP3061.0%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- PHJ
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–PHJ swing
- +86.7%
- IND share
- 5.2% → 58.4%
- PHJ share
- 50.0% → 16.5%
- Turnout
- — → —