Constituency
159. Nathnagar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-NATHNAGAR
INC 40.3%won by 19.4%NCO 21.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.8% to 40.3% of the vote here (+9.5%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 21.0% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.3% between them, down from 70.4% — 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
56,761
Margin
11,001
19.38%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1CHUNCHUN PRASAD YADAVIndian National Congress · INC22,90340.3%
- 2MAULVI SAMIN UDDINNCO · NCO11,90221.0%
- 3PRABHASH CHANDRA TIWARIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,59615.1%
- 4RAJENDRA PD. MANDALSOP · SOP7,14912.6%
- 5BANARSI PRASAD GUPTAIndependent · IND4,8488.5%
- 6BADRU DOIASwatantra Party · SWA1,3632.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −11.4%
- INC share
- 30.8% → 40.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 21.0%
- Turnout
- — → —