Constituency
11. Bikaner
Community mirrorRajasthan Assembly Election, 1972
RJ-BIKANER
INC 36.1%won by 16.3%IND 19.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.0% to 16.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Praja Socialist Party (PSP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.9% between them, down from 72.6% — 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
49,837
Margin
8,128
16.31%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1GOPAL JOSHIIndian National Congress · INC18,00536.1%
- 2MOHD. HUSSAINIndependent · IND9,87719.8%
- 3BHANWAR LAL KOTHARIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,47815.0%
- 4SATYANARAYANSOP · SOP7,29614.6%
- 5GOKUL PRASAD PUROHITIndependent · IND6,06612.2%
- 6ATMARAMIndependent · IND4660.9%
- 7JAGAT MARAYAN HARASHIndependent · IND3730.7%
- 8NOOR MOHDIndependent · IND2760.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −21.1%
- INC share
- 41.8% → 36.1%
- IND share
- 4.4% → 19.8%
- Turnout
- — → —