Constituency
205. Patna East
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-PATNA-EAST
INC 32.0%won by 0.8%BJS 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.7% to 32.0% of the vote here (+11.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 63.2% of the vote between them, up from 55.6% — 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
51,361
Margin
407
0.79%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1JAMIL AHMADIndian National Congress · INC16,44332.0%
- 2RAMDEO MAHTOBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS16,03631.2%
- 3HAZARI LALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,80815.2%
- 4YOGENDRA THAKURSOP · SOP4,3948.6%
- 5RAJENDRA PRASAD VERMAHindvi Swarajyay Dal · HSD2,5985.1%
- 6RAMSWAROOP MAHTOIndependent · IND2,0103.9%
- 7RAM BARAN PRASADNCO · NCO5511.1%
- 8BHARATH SINGHIndependent · IND4330.8%
- 9BIJENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND4310.8%
- 10BRIJ NANDANBCP · BCP2900.6%
- 11MAKHDUM ALAMSwatantra Party · SWA2570.5%
- 12SHAKEEL HASANIndependent · IND1100.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +13.2%
- INC share
- 20.7% → 32.0%
- BJS share
- 33.1% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —