Constituency
210. Paliganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-PALIGANJ
NCO 52.2%won by 18.2%SOP 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to NCO (NCO), which now leads by 18.2%.
- NCO vote shareNCO went from 0.0% to 52.2% of the vote here (+52.2%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 34.0% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.2% of the vote between them, up from 80.2% — 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
82,694
Margin
15,046
18.19%
Candidates
9 contested · winner NCO- 1KANHAI SINGHNCO · NCO43,15452.2%
- 2CHANDRADEO PRASAD VERMASOP · SOP28,10834.0%
- 3BALMIKE MANIIndian National Congress · INC6,1667.5%
- 4SARDAR RAGHE DHAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,4711.8%
- 5KHURSHEED AUBAR ARFIIndependent · IND1,0921.3%
- 6AWADHESH KUMAR YADAVIndependent · IND9151.1%
- 7SAMRENU PRASAD SINGHBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD7901.0%
- 8BISHWNATH GUPTABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5760.7%
- 9RAM LAKHAN SINGHIndependent · IND4220.5%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- NCOflipped
- NCO–SOP swing
- +18.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 52.2%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → —