Constituency
44. Sonepur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1977
BR-SONEPUR
JNP 60.7%won by 37.7%IND 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 37.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 60.7% of the vote here (+60.7%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 23.0% — it polled just 1.3% in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.6% between them, down from 93.1% — 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
67,136
Margin
25,336
37.74%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JNP- 1RAM SUNDER DASJanata Party · JNP40,74760.7%
- 2RAMESHWAR PRASAD RAIIndependent · IND15,41123.0%
- 3DHRURENDHAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI8,73713.0%
- 4BHOLA RAIIndependent · IND1,4502.2%
- 5SATYA NARAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND5520.8%
- 6BALESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND2390.4%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–IND swing
- +39.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 60.7%
- IND share
- 1.3% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —