Constituency
143. Pakpura
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-PAKPURA
INC 36.6%won by 5.2%PHJ 31.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.8% to 5.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to PHJ (PHJ).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.1% between them, down from 86.8% — the field split more ways.
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
35,389
Margin
1,831
5.17%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1S. M. JAFAR ALIIndian National Congress · INC12,96836.6%
- 2BANNALAL KHEMANIPHJ · PHJ11,13731.5%
- 3AJIT KR. BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,15914.6%
- 4BADRIKANATH JHABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,7655.0%
- 5MD. AMINSUC · SUC1,3093.7%
- 6S. M. NIZAMUDDINIndependent · IND8092.3%
- 7RAGHUNATH PD. YADAVIndependent · IND7162.0%
- 8BHUBNESHWAR MISHRASwatantra Party · SWA3821.1%
- 9MD. MAHSINIndependent · IND3300.9%
- 10DR. A. WAHABNCO · NCO3060.9%
- 11DR. MD. SOHRABALIIndependent · IND2610.7%
- 12DIPESH CH. MANDALSOP · SOP2470.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PHJ swing
- −36.9%
- INC share
- 44.8% → 36.6%
- PHJ share
- 2.7% → 31.5%
- Turnout
- — → —