Constituency
153. Jama
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1972
BR-JAMA
INC 31.6%won by 1.7%BJS 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.3% to 1.7%.
- Multi-cornered5 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
21,930
Margin
375
1.71%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1MAUAN BESRAIndian National Congress · INC6,93031.6%
- 2BATESHWAR HEMRUMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,55529.9%
- 3MUNSHI HASDAHJS · HJS3,73117.0%
- 4DEO NARAYAN TUDUPHJ · PHJ1,5397.0%
- 5PADAL MURMUNCO · NCO1,3946.4%
- 6BARKA TUDUJan Kalyan Party · JKP9604.4%
- 7MUNSHI BESRAIndependent · IND7233.3%
- 8SUSHIL SORENIndependent · IND980.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −1.5%
- INC share
- 34.4% → 31.6%
- BJS share
- 31.2% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —