Constituency
202. Masaurhi
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-MASAURHI
CPI 39.3%won by 2.2%BJS 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 2.2%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 27.3% to 39.3% of the vote here (+12.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.4% of the vote between them, up from 54.8% — 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
71,751
Margin
1,588
2.21%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1BHUWANESHWAR SHARMACommunist Party of India · CPI28,20039.3%
- 2BRAJNANDAN SAHAYABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS26,61237.1%
- 3WALESHWAR PRASAD YADAVHindvi Swarajyay Dal · HSD10,99815.3%
- 4KEDAR NATH SINGHNCO · NCO3,6575.1%
- 5DIUESHWAR PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND5950.8%
- 6BASGIT THAKURIndependent · IND5250.7%
- 7RAM NANDAN SINGHBCP · BCP4730.7%
- 8MUKUND SINGHSOP · SOP4170.6%
- 9SAHAJANAND SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA2740.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–BJS swing
- +2.4%
- CPI share
- 27.3% → 39.3%
- BJS share
- 27.5% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- — → —