Constituency
160. Bhagalpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-BHAGALPUR
BJS 53.6%won by 23.9%INC 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.1% to 23.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.2% of the vote between them, up from 73.4% — 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
50,886
Margin
12,175
23.93%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJS- 1VIJOY KUMAR MITRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS27,26453.6%
- 2HARENDRA PRASAD JHAIndian National Congress · INC15,08929.7%
- 3M. KAMAL UDDINSOP · SOP3,9757.8%
- 4SAHDEO JHANCO · NCO2,2334.4%
- 5SUBODH PRASAD RAAAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,4652.9%
- 6RAM PRASAD SAHIndependent · IND6521.3%
- 7NAGARMAL BAJORIASwatantra Party · SWA2080.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- BJS
- BJS–INC swing
- −1.2%
- BJS share
- 49.3% → 53.6%
- INC share
- 24.1% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —