Constituency
150. Deoghar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-DEOGHAR
INC 59.3%won by 41.7%BJS 17.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 26.9% to 41.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.9% between them, down from 83.5% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
30,556
Margin
12,751
41.73%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BAIDYA NATH DASIndian National Congress · INC18,13159.3%
- 2GOBIND DASBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,38017.6%
- 3WALESWAR DASNCO · NCO4,39614.4%
- 4JAGNARAIN DASSOP · SOP2,6498.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +14.8%
- INC share
- 55.2% → 59.3%
- BJS share
- 28.3% → 17.6%
- Turnout
- — → —