Constituency
277. Dhanbad
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-DHANBAD
CPI 57.3%won by 42.8%NCO 14.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bhartiya Krishak Dal (BKD) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 42.8%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 26.3% to 57.3% of the vote here (+31.0%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 14.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.7% of the vote between them, up from 64.1% — 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
43,211
Margin
18,509
42.83%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1CHINMOY MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI24,74457.3%
- 2BRAHMADEO SINGH SHARMANCO · NCO6,23514.4%
- 3SUDHINDER CHANDRA MALIKBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,49610.4%
- 4JAINUL HAQUEIndependent · IND3,5038.1%
- 5RAMNANDAN SINGH YADAVIndependent · IND2,9026.7%
- 6ANAND MOHAN VARMASOP · SOP5751.3%
- 7DHARIKA PRASAD SHARMAIndependent · IND5151.2%
- 8M. SAFIIndependent · IND2410.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BKD
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–NCO swing
- +16.6%
- CPI share
- 26.3% → 57.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 14.4%
- Turnout
- — → —