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Constituency

189. Barauni

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1972

BR-BARAUNI

CPI 48.4%won by 12.0%NCO 36.5%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.9% to 12.0%.

  • New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 36.5% — it did not contest here in 1969.
  • Multi-cornered3 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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not in source
Valid votes
71,246
Margin
8,539
11.99%

Candidates

7 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1CHANDRA SEKHAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI34,51748.4%
  2. 2RAMNESHWAR NATH DUTTNCO · NCO25,97836.5%
  3. 3RAM PADARATH SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,8305.4%
  4. 4SUDHIR KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND2,3593.3%
  5. 5BHAGWAT SINGHSOP · SOP1,7002.4%
  6. 6BIJAY SHANKAR TANTIIndependent · IND1,5932.2%
  7. 7BRAHM DEO PRASAD DASBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,2691.8%

Since 1969

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPI–NCO swing
−36.0%
CPI share
48.0% → 48.4%
NCO share
0.0% → 36.5%
Turnout
— → —
188. Bariarpur190. Bachhwara
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