Constituency
121. Sonabarsa
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1977
BR-SONABARSA
JNP 31.2%won by 11.2%IND 20.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: SOP (SOP) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 11.2%.
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 31.2% of the vote here (+31.2%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 20.0% — it polled just 1.8% in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.3% between them, down from 87.9% — 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
67,293
Margin
7,546
11.21%
Candidates
16 contested · winner JNP- 1ASHOK KUMAR SINGHJanata Party · JNP21,01931.2%
- 2SURYA NR YADAVIndependent · IND13,47320.0%
- 3GAURI SHANKAR JHACommunist Party of India · CPI12,99619.3%
- 4JAGDISH MANDALIndependent · IND4,4026.5%
- 5YOGENDRA PD GUPTAIndependent · IND4,0976.1%
- 6SHAMBHUNTH JHAIndependent · IND2,0583.1%
- 7RAJENDRA BISWASIndependent · IND1,8382.7%
- 8NAGESHWAR YADAVIndependent · IND1,8182.7%
- 9MANIKANT JHAIndependent · IND1,5452.3%
- 10KRISHNADEO YADAVIndependent · IND1,4812.2%
- 11PRABAHKAR SINGHIndependent · IND9821.5%
- 12RAHESHWAR SAHIndependent · IND7601.1%
- 13JAGANNATH JHAIndependent · IND2610.4%
- 14ANIRUDH JHAIndependent · IND2370.4%
- 15JAGESHWAR HAZARAIndependent · IND2290.3%
- 16SURESH YADAVIndependent · IND970.1%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- SOP
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–IND swing
- +13.1%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 31.2%
- IND share
- 1.8% → 20.0%
- Turnout
- — → —