Constituency
176. Surajgarha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-SURAJGARHA
CPI 26.1%won by 6.3%SOP 19.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.0% to 6.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 19.8% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 45.9% between them, down from 64.6% — 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
62,448
Margin
3,938
6.31%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1SUNAINA SHARMACommunist Party of India · CPI16,29126.1%
- 2BHAGWAT PRASAD MEHTASOP · SOP12,35319.8%
- 3JAGLAL MEHTONCO · NCO11,06517.7%
- 4RAM CHANDRA PRASAD MEHTOIndependent · IND8,79414.1%
- 5GANGA PD. SINGH YADAVIndependent · IND8,44013.5%
- 6RAM CHANDRA SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,2755.2%
- 7SHIO SHAUKER SINGH GARGBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,2061.9%
- 8KARYA NAND MISHRAIndependent · IND5760.9%
- 9RADHE SINGHIndependent · IND4480.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–SOP swing
- −28.0%
- CPI share
- 34.3% → 26.1%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 19.8%
- Turnout
- — → —