Constituency
241. Obra
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-OBRA
INC 53.7%won by 34.3%NCO 19.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 34.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.6% to 53.7% of the vote here (+24.1%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 19.5% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.2% of the vote between them, up from 68.1% — 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
56,224
Margin
19,264
34.26%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1NARAIN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC30,21653.7%
- 2RAMESH PRASAD SINGHNCO · NCO10,95219.5%
- 3PURUSHOTAM UPADHAYAYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,96717.7%
- 4PADARATH SINGHSOP · SOP3,1565.6%
- 5VAIJ NATH SINGHIndependent · IND1,5052.7%
- 6DEONARAIN SINGHIndependent · IND4280.8%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- +4.6%
- INC share
- 29.6% → 53.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 19.5%
- Turnout
- — → —