Constituency
204. Patna South
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-PATNA-SOUTH
INC 76.9%won by 59.1%NCO 17.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.6% to 59.1%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 17.8% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.8% of the vote between them, up from 59.7% — 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
94,878
Margin
56,111
59.14%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RAMLAKAN SINGH YADAVIndian National Congress · INC73,00576.9%
- 2PARMATMA SINGHNCO · NCO16,89417.8%
- 3REWATI KANT SINGHSOP · SOP4,4464.7%
- 4LAXMI NARAYAN YADAVBCP · BCP5330.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- +20.5%
- INC share
- 38.7% → 76.9%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 17.8%
- Turnout
- — → —