Constituency
246. Sherghati
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-SHERGHATI
INC 61.2%won by 32.7%SOP 28.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 32.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.6% to 61.2% of the vote here (+40.5%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 28.5% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.7% of the vote between them, up from 63.6% — 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
63,394
Margin
20,729
32.70%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1JAIRAM GIRIIndian National Congress · INC38,78861.2%
- 2UPENDRA NATH VERMASOP · SOP18,05928.5%
- 3DEVENDRA PRASAD NIRALAIndependent · IND3,1545.0%
- 4RAHIM KHANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,9344.6%
- 5RANJIT SINGHIndependent · IND4590.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- +12.1%
- INC share
- 20.6% → 61.2%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 28.5%
- Turnout
- — → —