Constituency
161. Gopalpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-GOPALPUR
INC 63.1%won by 42.8%NCO 20.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.3% to 42.8%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 20.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
54,737
Margin
23,413
42.77%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MADAN PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC34,55563.1%
- 2ACHU A. NAND SINGHNCO · NCO11,14220.4%
- 3ACHYOTA NAND SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,1249.4%
- 4LAKHAN JAISWALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,9167.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −7.2%
- INC share
- 50.0% → 63.1%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 20.4%
- Turnout
- — → —