Constituency
8. Bettiah
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1977
BR-BETTIAH
INC 50.2%won by 6.7%JNP 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.1% to 6.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 43.5% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.7% of the vote between them, up from 65.0% — 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
57,158
Margin
3,816
6.68%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1GAURI SHANKAR PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC28,69350.2%
- 2MADAN LAL SINHANIAJanata Party · JNP24,87743.5%
- 3ABDUL WAHAB KHANIndependent · IND1,3532.4%
- 4RANJEET GIRIIndependent · IND8261.4%
- 5M. A. HAKIMIndependent · IND6261.1%
- 6CHHEDI KHANIndependent · IND3870.7%
- 7SHEO SHANKAR PRASADIndependent · IND2470.4%
- 8ARSHAD ALAMIndependent · IND1490.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −27.4%
- INC share
- 34.0% → 50.2%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- — → —