Constituency
226. Karakat
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-KARAKAT
INC 43.0%won by 8.4%SOP 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 10.8% to 43.0% of the vote here (+32.1%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 34.6% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.6% of the vote between them, up from 63.7% — 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
57,013
Margin
4,786
8.39%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1MANORMA PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC24,50043.0%
- 2TULSI SINGHSOP · SOP19,71434.6%
- 3VIRENDRA KUMAR SINGHNCO · NCO6,13610.8%
- 4CHANDI PRASAD SINGHHindvi Swarajyay Dal · HSD4,8078.4%
- 5DAROGA SHARMAIndependent · IND1,4182.5%
- 6SHEONANDAN RAMIndependent · IND4380.8%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −2.4%
- INC share
- 10.8% → 43.0%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → —