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Bihar · Assembly Constituency 271

RamgarhAssembly by-election result, 1972

S.Nisa (CPI) won Ramgarh in the 1972 assembly by-election with 50.1% of the vote, beating R.N.Chaudhary (BJS) by 12,139 votes.

Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1967 election. In 1962, seat no. 271 was Hazaribagh. Seat boundaries were redrawn after 1972. From 1977, seat no. 271 is Dhanwar. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.

Winner

S.NISA
CPI 50.2%BJS 29.2%5 others 20.7%
Votes
28,994
50.1% share
Winning margin
12,139
21.0% of votes
Candidates
7

A comfortable win — S.NISA won by 21.0%.

Seat history

All Candidates

7 candidates
#CandidatePartyVotes · %
1
S.NISA
28,99450.2%
2
R.N.CHAUDHARY
16,85529.2%
3
R.GUPTA
9,68716.8%
4
R.A.LAL
IND
IND
7481.3%
5
R.MAHTO
JKP
JKP
7151.2%
6
R.C.S.GUPTA
5811.0%
7
S.K.SINGH
2290.4%

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A comfortable margin, a two-to-three-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
21.0%

winning margin, share of votes

How many parties were really in the race?

SEAT
Two or three

CPI, BJS and INC took 96% of the votes.

Parties in the race 2.74

How did the vote split?

SEAT
50.2%won by CPI
CPI 50.2%BJS 29.2%INC 16.8%Others 3.9%

This seat number was reused from 1977. The district data on file describe the seat as contested from 1977, so they are not shown for earlier elections.

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Who has won Ramgarh, 1967–1972

  1. 1967T. P. BUXI (JKD), margin 3.8%
  2. 1969BODULAL AGRAWAL (INC), margin 1.4%
  3. 1972MANZURUL HASSAN KHAN (CPI), margin 6.3%