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84. Bhagalpur

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971

IN-BHAGALPUR

INC 46.9%won by 19.5%CPI 27.4%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.1% to 19.5%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.3% of the vote between them, up from 64.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
6,06,019
Turnout
51.7%
Valid votes
3,13,210
Margin
61,039
19.49%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1BHAGWAT JHA AZADIndian National Congress · INC1,46,88146.9%
  2. 2RAMESHWAR NATH TEWARICommunist Party of India · CPI85,84227.4%
  3. 3JAGESHWAR MANDALNCO · NCO70,97422.7%
  4. 4NAGARMAL BAJORIAIndependent · IND6,8982.2%
  5. 5LALMOHAN PASWANIndia Suyarajya Party · ISP2,6150.8%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPI swing
+7.4%
INC share
38.3% → 46.9%
CPI share
26.2% → 27.4%
Turnout
53.5% → 51.7%
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