Constituency
165. Dhuraiya
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-DHURAIYA
CPI 50.1%won by 8.4%SOP 41.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 8.4%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 35.4% to 50.1% of the vote here (+14.7%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 41.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.8% of the vote between them, up from 73.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
49,570
Margin
4,170
8.41%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1NARESH DASCommunist Party of India · CPI24,84050.1%
- 2RAM CHANDRA BHANOOSOP · SOP20,67041.7%
- 3UMESH CHANDRA DASNCO · NCO1,7803.6%
- 4BHAJNO DASBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,4853.0%
- 5AJNAS KUMAR DASIndependent · IND7951.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–SOP swing
- −27.0%
- CPI share
- 35.4% → 50.1%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 41.7%
- Turnout
- — → —