Constituency
291. Manoharpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-MANOHARPUR
INC 36.0%won by 8.2%PHJ 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 4.5% to 36.0% of the vote here (+31.5%).
- New challengerPHJ (PHJ) finished second with 27.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.7% between them, down from 85.6% — the field split more ways.
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
29,657
Margin
2,441
8.23%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1DURGA PRASAD JAMUDAIndian National Congress · INC10,67036.0%
- 2JUSTIN RICHARDPHJ · PHJ8,22927.7%
- 3MUKTIDANI SUMBRUIJan Kalyan Party · JKP4,69615.8%
- 4RATNAKAR NAYAKIndependent · IND4,34514.7%
- 5NIRANJAN PURTIIndependent · IND9433.2%
- 6ABRAHAM JOJOJKD · JKD4231.4%
- 7KRISHNA CHANDRA HEMBROMIndependent · IND3511.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PHJ swing
- +3.7%
- INC share
- 4.5% → 36.0%
- PHJ share
- 0.0% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —