Constituency
98. Dalsinghsarai
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1977
BR-DALSINGHSARAI
JNP 50.0%won by 14.3%INC 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 14.3%.
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 50.0% of the vote here (+50.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.6% of the vote between them, up from 73.3% — 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
58,390
Margin
8,371
14.34%
Candidates
11 contested · winner JNP- 1YASHWANT KUMAR CHOUDHARYJanata Party · JNP29,16750.0%
- 2JAGDISH PRASAD CHOUDHARYIndian National Congress · INC20,79635.6%
- 3CHANDESHWAR PRASADIndependent · IND4,0326.9%
- 4KRISHNA KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND1,2382.1%
- 5NAZIR MIANIndependent · IND9011.5%
- 6AMBIKA SINGHIndependent · IND6581.1%
- 7RADHAGOVIND SINGHIndependent · IND4990.9%
- 8RAMDEO MAHTOIndependent · IND4100.7%
- 9NALINI KANT ISSARIndependent · IND3540.6%
- 10RAM KRISHNA SAH ALIAS RAM KRIPAL SAHIndependent · IND2670.5%
- 11ABDUL MALIKIndependent · IND680.1%
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–INC swing
- +59.7%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 50.0%
- INC share
- 45.4% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —