Constituency
195. Bihar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BIHAR
BJS 44.1%won by 5.6%CPI 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 5.6%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 29.0% to 44.1% of the vote here (+15.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.5% of the vote between them, up from 67.0% — 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
70,754
Margin
3,955
5.59%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJS- 1VIRENDRA PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS31,16844.1%
- 2VIJO KUMAR YADAVCommunist Party of India · CPI27,21338.5%
- 3M. A. MANZOORNCO · NCO3,5565.0%
- 4MD. FAQURUDDINMUL · MUL3,2284.6%
- 5RAM KRISHNA PRASADSOP · SOP1,5712.2%
- 6ANWARUL HASANIndependent · IND1,3932.0%
- 7RAMDEO RAMIndependent · IND1,1471.6%
- 8KAILASH PRASADBCP · BCP4820.7%
- 9BARHAM DEO KUMARRPI · RPI4760.7%
- 10NASIMAHMAD KHANIndependent · IND3570.5%
- 11MAHANTH BHUNESHWAR PURIIndependent · IND1630.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–CPI swing
- +14.7%
- BJS share
- 29.0% → 44.1%
- CPI share
- 38.1% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- — → —