Constituency
217. Nawanagar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-NAWANAGAR
CPI 63.5%won by 44.8%NCO 18.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.0% to 44.8%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 18.8% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
36,242
Margin
16,221
44.76%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1LAL BEHARI PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI23,02763.5%
- 2SITA RAM PASWANNCO · NCO6,80618.8%
- 3NAND KISHORE PRASADSOP · SOP6,40917.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–NCO swing
- −0.3%
- CPI share
- 45.1% → 63.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 18.8%
- Turnout
- — → —