Constituency
15. Sagolband
Community mirrorManipur Assembly Election, 1972
MN-SAGOLBAND
CPI 42.2%won by 5.6%MRP 36.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.6%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 42.2% of the vote here (+42.2%).
- New challengerMRP (MRP) finished second with 36.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.8% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
5,750
Margin
321
5.58%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1THOKCHOM BIRACommunist Party of India · CPI2,42742.2%
- 2SALAM GAMBHIRMRP · MRP2,10636.6%
- 3ARAMBAM LALMANI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC72912.7%
- 4WAHENGBAM TOMCHANCO · NCO4888.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–MRP swing
- +5.6%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 42.2%
- MRP share
- 0.0% → 36.6%
- Turnout
- — → —