Constituency
244. Rafiganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-RAFIGANJ
INC 49.7%won by 27.3%BJS 22.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 27.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.9% to 49.7% of the vote here (+20.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.1% of the vote between them, up from 61.4% — 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
37,015
Margin
10,087
27.25%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1FAGUNI RAMIndian National Congress · INC18,38449.7%
- 2SAHDEO CHOUDHARYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,29722.4%
- 3BISHESHWAR NATH GUPTANCO · NCO6,71718.1%
- 4SITA RAM DEENSOP · SOP3,0388.2%
- 5RAM LAGAN RAMIndependent · IND5791.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +30.9%
- INC share
- 28.9% → 49.7%
- BJS share
- 32.5% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- — → —