Constituency
27. Bishenpur
Community mirrorManipur Assembly Election, 1972
MN-BISHENPUR
INC 35.2%won by 9.3%SOP 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.6% to 9.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.2% between them, down from 72.8% — 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
9,001
Margin
834
9.27%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KHAIDEM RATHAIndian National Congress · INC3,17035.2%
- 2AKOIJAM KETUKOSOP · SOP2,33626.0%
- 3SOUGAIJAM TOMBACommunist Party of India · CPI1,75919.5%
- 4MAIREMBAM NILACHANDRAMRP · MRP1,73619.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −37.0%
- INC share
- 46.2% → 35.2%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —