Election
Constituency

300. Khijri

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1972

BR-KHIJRI

INC 41.1%won by 24.9%BJS 16.2%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 24.9%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 21.0% to 41.1% of the vote here (+20.2%).
  • Multi-cornered5 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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Valid votes
40,800
Margin
10,147
24.87%

Candidates

11 contested · winner INC
  1. 1UMRAO SADHO KUJURIndian National Congress · INC16,77241.1%
  2. 2SUKHARI ORAONBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,62516.2%
  3. 3MATIAS DEMTAJan Kalyan Party · JKP6,04914.8%
  4. 4R. L. HOROIndependent · IND3,2257.9%
  5. 5DEVI PRASANNA SAZAIYANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,9717.3%
  6. 6FANINDRA NATH SAHISOP · SOP1,7684.3%
  7. 7SURAJ NATH ORAONRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP1,5333.8%
  8. 8SOMNATH ORAONJKD · JKD5821.4%
  9. 9CHHATRAPATI MAHABIRIndependent · IND5511.4%
  10. 10JOSEPHTIRKEYNCO · NCO4591.1%
  11. 11CHANDAR ORAONIndependent · IND2650.6%

Since 1969

Derived
Winner then
BJS
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–BJS swing
+40.7%
INC share
21.0% → 41.1%
BJS share
36.8% → 16.2%
Turnout
— → —
299. Silli301. Ranchi
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