Constituency
269. Chatra
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-CHATRA
INC 44.3%won by 7.2%BJS 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Jan Asra Party (JAP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 13.6% to 44.3% of the vote here (+30.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.5% of the vote between them, up from 53.5% — 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
36,886
Margin
2,665
7.22%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1TAPESHWAR DEOIndian National Congress · INC16,35644.3%
- 2PRAJA PALAK NATH SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,69137.1%
- 3BHUNESAB SARUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,5099.5%
- 4SATRUGHAN SINGHSOP · SOP3,3309.0%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- JAP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +8.9%
- INC share
- 13.6% → 44.3%
- BJS share
- 15.2% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- — → —