Constituency
313. Daltonganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-DALTONGANJ
SOP 44.3%won by 13.1%CPI 31.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to SOP (SOP), which now leads by 13.1%.
- SOP vote shareSOP went from 0.0% to 44.3% of the vote here (+44.3%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 31.1% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.4% of the vote between them, up from 68.8% — 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
37,930
Margin
4,976
13.12%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SOP- 1PURAN CHANDSOP · SOP16,79044.3%
- 2BHUNESHWAR PRASAD BAJPAICommunist Party of India · CPI11,81431.1%
- 3SHYAM NARAIN DUBEYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,24719.1%
- 4BABU LAL RAMJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,2753.4%
- 5SURAJ DEO SINGHJKD · JKD8042.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- SOPflipped
- SOP–CPI swing
- +13.1%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 44.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 31.1%
- Turnout
- — → —