Constituency
91. Hojai
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1978
AS-HOJAI
JNP 30.6%won by 7.1%CPI 23.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 7.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 30.6% of the vote here (+30.6%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.0% between them, down from 85.5% — the field split more ways.
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
54,593
Margin
3,862
7.07%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JNP- 1SANTI RANJAN DAS GUPTAJanata Party · JNP16,68430.6%
- 2AFTARUDDIN AHMEDCommunist Party of India · CPI12,82223.5%
- 3SADHAN RANJAN SARKARIndian National Congress · INC12,33322.6%
- 4ABDUL KHALEQUE CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,72312.3%
- 5JOGESWAR SINGHIndependent · IND3,2666.0%
- 6GOBIND SINGH CHAWLAIndian National Congress · INC2,7655.1%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–CPI swing
- +17.6%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 30.6%
- CPI share
- 10.5% → 23.5%
- Turnout
- — → —