Constituency
231. Piro
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-PIRO
INC 32.8%won by 8.0%NCO 24.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 9.9% to 32.8% of the vote here (+22.9%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 24.8% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 57.6% of the vote between them, up from 42.5% — 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
56,035
Margin
4,473
7.98%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1JAY NARAYANIndian National Congress · INC18,36232.8%
- 2INURAMANI SINGHNCO · NCO13,88924.8%
- 3RAM KBAL SINGHSOP · SOP11,68420.9%
- 4CHANDRA BHUSAN TIWARIIndependent · IND3,9647.1%
- 5ASH PUJAN SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,7724.9%
- 6SURAJ PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND1,8283.3%
- 7LAKSHMAN SINGHIndependent · IND1,8033.2%
- 8RAMANAND DASSIndependent · IND9991.8%
- 9JAY MANGAL SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7341.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −1.9%
- INC share
- 9.9% → 32.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 24.8%
- Turnout
- — → —