Constituency
186. Begusarai
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BEGUSARAI
CPI 34.3%won by 15.9%INC 18.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 15.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 40.5% to 34.3% of the vote here (−6.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 52.8% between them, down from 82.2% — 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
63,746
Margin
10,116
15.87%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1BHOLA SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI21,88734.3%
- 2GITA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC11,77118.5%
- 3VISHESHWAR PRASAD SINGHNCO · NCO9,66515.2%
- 4SHANTI DEVISOP · SOP8,37013.1%
- 5RAMJI CHAUDHRYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,91212.4%
- 6UCHIT YADAVCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,4945.5%
- 7JAINATH PODDARIndependent · IND6471.0%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +17.1%
- CPI share
- 40.5% → 34.3%
- INC share
- 41.7% → 18.5%
- Turnout
- — → —