Constituency
5. Sikta
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1977
BR-SIKTA
INC 58.7%won by 39.2%CPM 19.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: NCO (NCO) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 39.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.2% to 58.7% of the vote here (+32.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.2% of the vote between them, up from 65.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
48,234
Margin
18,907
39.20%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1FAIYAZUL AZAMIndian National Congress · INC28,32458.7%
- 2SHRI NIVAS PANDEYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,41719.5%
- 3SARDAR BAHADUR RAIIndependent · IND6,76014.0%
- 4DHARMESH PRASAD VERMAIndependent · IND1,7953.7%
- 5BAID NATH THAKURIndependent · IND8241.7%
- 6MAHABIR HAZRAIndependent · IND6951.4%
- 7AURANGAZEBIndependent · IND3110.6%
- 8GOPAL GIRIIndependent · IND1080.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- NCO
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +44.5%
- INC share
- 26.2% → 58.7%
- CPM share
- 31.6% → 19.5%
- Turnout
- — → —