1972 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 1972 was held in 1972 to elect members to the Bihar Legislative Assembly[1].This is a list of the results of the 1972 general election to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar, a state in India, including a list of successful candidates. After the elections, the Congress emerged as the largest party, and Kedar Pandey was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar (19 March 1972- 02 July 1973), after Abdul Gafoor become the Chief Minister of Bihar from ( 02 July 1973-11 April 1975) and also Jagannath Mishra became the Chief Minister of Bihar from (11 April 1975-30 April 1977 ).

1972 Bihar legislative assembly election

318 seats to the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Majority party Minority party   Leader Kedar Pandey Shrinath Mishra Party Indian National Congress Communist Party of India Seats won 167 35
Chief Minister before election President's rule N/A Elected Chief Minister Kedar Pandey INC

Party-wise performance

S. No.	Abbreviation	Party	Party Flag	Seats contested	Seats won
1	BJS	Bharatiya Jan Sangh		-	25
2	CPI	Communist Party of India		-	35
3	INC	Indian National Congress		-	167
4	INC(NCO)	Indian National Congress (O)		-	30
5	(SOP)	Samyukta Socialist Party/Socialist Party (SOP)		-	33
6	SWA	Swatantra Party		-	1
7	HJS	Progressive Hull Jharkhand Party (Shibu Group) (HJS)		-	1
8	HSD	Hindustani Shoshit Dal (HSD)		-	1
9	JKD	Jharkhand (Jkd)		-	1
10	JKP	All India Jharkhand Party (JKP)		-	3
11	PHJ	Bihar Prant Hul Jharkhand (PHJ)		-	2
12	IND	Independent		-	17

References

1. "1972 Election Result". www.elections.in.