Constituency
301. Ranchi
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-RANCHI
INC 58.4%won by 36.2%BJS 22.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 36.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.1% to 58.4% of the vote here (+36.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.6% of the vote between them, up from 68.5% — 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
47,431
Margin
17,160
36.18%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1DEOPAT SAHUIndian National Congress · INC27,70458.4%
- 2NANI GOPAL MITRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS10,54422.2%
- 3KAMAKHYA NARAYAN SINGHNCO · NCO5,64511.9%
- 4DURGA BAGCHIRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP1,6743.5%
- 5VARUN GANGULIJKD · JKD6391.3%
- 6JAKIRIndependent · IND4531.0%
- 7SITARAM PODDARIndependent · IND3310.7%
- 8MOHANLAL PATHAKSwatantra Party · SWA2670.6%
- 9PRABIR KUMAR GHOSHJan Kalyan Party · JKP1740.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +57.7%
- INC share
- 22.1% → 58.4%
- BJS share
- 43.6% → 22.2%
- Turnout
- — → —