Constituency
220. Mohania
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-MOHANIA
INC 53.2%won by 14.3%SOP 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.2% to 53.2% of the vote here (+20.0%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 39.0% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.2% of the vote between them, up from 80.3% — 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
55,506
Margin
7,919
14.27%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SURESH KUMARIndian National Congress · INC29,54153.2%
- 2BHAGWTAR PRASADSOP · SOP21,62239.0%
- 3LAKHI CHAND RAMIndependent · IND1,3242.4%
- 4MAHAVIR PASWANNCO · NCO1,0261.8%
- 5RAM ADHAR RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9901.8%
- 6RAM KESHI PRASADHindvi Swarajyay Dal · HSD5781.0%
- 7KAPILDEO CHAMARIndependent · IND4250.8%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −18.9%
- INC share
- 33.2% → 53.2%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- — → —