Constituency
212. Arrah
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-ARRAH
INC 33.2%won by 0.9%SOP 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.4% to 33.2% of the vote here (+8.8%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 32.3% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 65.5% of the vote between them, up from 51.4% — 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
53,163
Margin
453
0.85%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1SUMITRA DEVIIndian National Congress · INC17,64433.2%
- 2RAM WADHESH SINGHSOP · SOP17,19132.3%
- 3RAMKHELAWAN SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,48216.0%
- 4SATYENDRA PD. SINGHIndependent · IND4,0607.6%
- 5TETAR RAMIndependent · IND2,6134.9%
- 6SUKHDEO NARAYANBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD9801.8%
- 7RAM PRAVESH RAMIndependent · IND5841.1%
- 8MD. ALAMGIRIndependent · IND5371.0%
- 9ABDUL HAQUEIndependent · IND2510.5%
- 10SIDHNATH PRASAD YADAVSUC · SUC2460.5%
- 11NAGENDRA PRASADIndependent · IND2350.4%
- 12KESHAV PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND1770.3%
- 13YADUNANDAN PRASADIndependent · IND1630.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −23.6%
- INC share
- 24.4% → 33.2%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —