Constituency
230. Jagdishpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-JAGDISHPUR
INC 41.7%won by 5.7%NCO 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 18.8% to 41.7% of the vote here (+22.9%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 36.0% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.7% of the vote between them, up from 40.0% — 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
57,367
Margin
3,247
5.66%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SHIV PUJAN VARMAIndian National Congress · INC23,90941.7%
- 2SATYA NARAYAN SINGHNCO · NCO20,66236.0%
- 3JIUT TIWARIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,92717.3%
- 4G. LAL SRIVASTAVASUC · SUC1,6933.0%
- 5SHOV NATH PRASAD GUPTASOP · SOP7391.3%
- 6MISHRI PRASAD MEHTAIndependent · IND4370.8%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −13.1%
- INC share
- 18.8% → 41.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- — → —