Constituency
174. Barbigha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BARBIGHA
IND 48.3%won by 15.3%CPI 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.8% to 15.3%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 33.1% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.4% of the vote between them, up from 64.9% — 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
67,655
Margin
10,345
15.29%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1RAJO SINGHIndependent · IND32,71048.3%
- 2SHEO SHANKAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI22,36533.1%
- 3BHOLA PRASAD YADAVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,80810.1%
- 4NARMADESHWAR PD. SINGHIndependent · IND5,7728.5%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–CPI swing
- −28.1%
- IND share
- 43.4% → 48.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —