Constituency
276. Baghmara
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BAGHMARA
INC 57.4%won by 47.0%SOP 10.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 47.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.2% to 57.4% of the vote here (+33.2%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 10.3% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.7% of the vote between them, up from 52.0% — 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
39,477
Margin
18,572
47.05%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1IMAMUL HAI KHANIndian National Congress · INC22,65657.4%
- 2SURYA KANT ROYSOP · SOP4,08410.3%
- 3PARSU RAM SHARMAIndependent · IND3,6659.3%
- 4SAMRESH SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,9307.4%
- 5MADAN MOHAN SINGHJKD · JKD1,7134.3%
- 6SUDAN MAHTOIndependent · IND1,5253.9%
- 7JYOTI PRAKASH MISHRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,1292.9%
- 8BHAGWAN DAS PASWANNCO · NCO6271.6%
- 9RAMTA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND5941.5%
- 10RAM DAYAL YADAVJan Kalyan Party · JKP3060.8%
- 11R. P. ROYIndependent · IND2480.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- +22.9%
- INC share
- 24.2% → 57.4%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 10.3%
- Turnout
- — → —