Constituency
248. Bodh Gaya
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BODH-GAYA
CPI 45.5%won by 18.9%NCO 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 18.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 20.7% to 45.5% of the vote here (+24.7%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 26.6% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.1% of the vote between them, up from 64.0% — 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
34,486
Margin
6,504
18.86%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1BALIK RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI15,68545.5%
- 2YAMUNA PRASADNCO · NCO9,18126.6%
- 3KALI RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,10811.9%
- 4RAM NARESH PRASADIndependent · IND3,1179.0%
- 5RAJESH KUMARSOP · SOP2,3956.9%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–NCO swing
- −1.9%
- CPI share
- 20.7% → 45.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- — → —