Constituency
225. Dehri
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-DEHRI
INC 55.8%won by 33.4%BJS 22.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.0% to 33.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Praja Socialist Party (PSP) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.1% of the vote between them, up from 57.5% — 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
63,979
Margin
21,395
33.44%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUL QUAYOM ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC35,67955.8%
- 2BASUDEO NARAIN SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS14,28422.3%
- 3VIKRAMA SINGHSOP · SOP14,01621.9%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +20.5%
- INC share
- 31.2% → 55.8%
- BJS share
- 18.3% → 22.3%
- Turnout
- — → —