Constituency
298. Khunti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-KHUNTI
INC 50.7%won by 28.1%BJS 22.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.6% to 28.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.4% of the vote between them, up from 64.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
29,806
Margin
8,361
28.05%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1TIRU MUCHI RAI MUNDAIndian National Congress · INC15,12250.7%
- 2KARIA MUNDABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,76122.7%
- 3SAMUEL HOROJKD · JKD3,78012.7%
- 4PHUL CHAND KACHCHAPIndependent · IND3,51111.8%
- 5AMBULAN HEMROMNCO · NCO6322.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +7.5%
- INC share
- 42.7% → 50.7%
- BJS share
- 22.2% → 22.7%
- Turnout
- — → —