Constituency
283. Ghatsila
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-GHATSILA
CPI 38.0%won by 2.6%JKP 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 2.6%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 14.9% to 38.0% of the vote here (+23.1%).
- New challengerJan Kalyan Party (JKP) finished second with 35.3% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.3% of the vote between them, up from 59.0% — 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
31,597
Margin
833
2.64%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1TIKA RAM MAJHICommunist Party of India · CPI11,99638.0%
- 2YAUU NATH BASKEYJan Kalyan Party · JKP11,16335.3%
- 3ANPA MURMUSUC · SUC4,69314.9%
- 4SHYAMCHARAN MURMUNCO · NCO3,0079.5%
- 5BAHADUR MANKIIndependent · IND7382.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–JKP swing
- −12.2%
- CPI share
- 14.9% → 38.0%
- JKP share
- 0.0% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- — → —