Constituency
238. Belaganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BELAGANJ
NCO 55.4%won by 33.4%HSD 22.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to NCO (NCO), which now leads by 33.4%.
- NCO vote shareNCO went from 0.0% to 55.4% of the vote here (+55.4%).
- New challengerHindvi Swarajyay Dal (HSD) finished second with 22.1% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.5% of the vote between them, up from 50.8% — 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
68,905
Margin
22,987
33.36%
Candidates
10 contested · winner NCO- 1JITENDRA PD. SINGHNCO · NCO38,19355.4%
- 2RAMESHWAR PRASAD YADAVHindvi Swarajyay Dal · HSD15,20622.1%
- 3KEDAR NATH SAHNDILYAIndian National Congress · INC8,51412.4%
- 4JITENDRA MOHAN SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,9504.3%
- 5BALESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND2,4413.5%
- 6SHAMBHU PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND4050.6%
- 7RAMASHSAY PRASADIndependent · IND3660.5%
- 8DUDHERHWAR PRASADIndependent · IND3230.5%
- 9VIJOY KUMARSOP · SOP2840.4%
- 10KESHO YADAVIndependent · IND2230.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- NCOflipped
- NCO–HSD swing
- +33.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 55.4%
- HSD share
- 0.0% → 22.1%
- Turnout
- — → —