Constituency
149. Madhupur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-MADHUPUR
BJS 32.4%won by 2.8%INC 29.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 2.8%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 26.3% to 32.4% of the vote here (+6.1%).
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
41,789
Margin
1,165
2.79%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJS- 1AJIT KUMAR BANERJEEBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,54732.4%
- 2ANANT SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC12,38229.6%
- 3NUR ALAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,20026.8%
- 4LOBA RAM HANSDAPHJ · PHJ2,6306.3%
- 5JWALA PRASAD RAINCO · NCO1,3333.2%
- 6ANIRUDRA SINGHSOP · SOP6971.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–INC swing
- +15.2%
- BJS share
- 26.3% → 32.4%
- INC share
- 38.8% → 29.6%
- Turnout
- — → —