Constituency
199. Islampur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-ISLAMPUR
IND 39.4%won by 1.8%NCO 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 1.8%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.0% to 39.4% of the vote here (+39.4%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 37.6% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.9% of the vote between them, up from 62.5% — 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
85,477
Margin
1,536
1.80%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1RAMSHARAN PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND33,64439.4%
- 2RAMCHANDRA SINGHNCO · NCO32,10837.6%
- 3MUNDRIKA SINGHIndependent · IND15,16717.7%
- 4GANGA RAVIDASIndependent · IND1,8142.1%
- 5SAMSUDINIndependent · IND1,4761.7%
- 6PANCHANAN UPADHYAYSOP · SOP8881.0%
- 7GOVIND LAL CHAURASIAIndependent · IND3800.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–NCO swing
- +1.8%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 39.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- — → —