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285. Jamshedpur East

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1972

BR-JAMSHEDPUR-EAST

CPI 55.5%won by 34.0%CPM 21.5%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 33.3% to 34.0%.

  • New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 21.5% — it did not contest here in 1969.
  • Safe seatCommunist Party of India won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
51,178
Margin
17,407
34.01%

Candidates

7 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1KEDAR DASCommunist Party of India · CPI28,40655.5%
  2. 2A. V. S. N. RAOCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM10,99921.5%
  3. 3D. N. PANDEYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,18810.1%
  4. 4RAMAMN CHOUDHURYNCO · NCO3,9747.8%
  5. 5YUGAL KISHORE YADAVILP · ILP1,1292.2%
  6. 6SUKH RAMJKD · JKD9261.8%
  7. 7JOY RAM MANJHIIndependent · IND5561.1%

Since 1969

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPI–CPM swing
−21.9%
CPI share
55.9% → 55.5%
CPM share
0.0% → 21.5%
Turnout
— → —
284. Patamda286. Jamshedpur West
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