Constituency
130. Araria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1977
BR-ARARIA
INC 25.7%won by 9.1%JNP 16.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: SOP (SOP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.5% to 25.7% of the vote here (−4.8%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 16.6% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 42.3% between them, down from 76.0% — 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
54,007
Margin
4,938
9.14%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1SRIDEO JHAIndian National Congress · INC13,90125.7%
- 2DEO NARAIN MISHRAJanata Party · JNP8,96316.6%
- 3ANANDI PRASAD BISWASIndependent · IND7,74814.3%
- 4ALIM UDDINIndependent · IND7,54114.0%
- 5ABDUL RAUFIndependent · IND3,7256.9%
- 6NASIB LAL MANDALIndependent · IND3,0015.6%
- 7NAND KESHWAR MANDALIndependent · IND2,8395.3%
- 8GOLAB CHAND RAIIndependent · IND2,3844.4%
- 9GANGA PRASAD BHAGATIndependent · IND1,4582.7%
- 10AZAMIndependent · IND1,2162.3%
- 11RAMESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND6501.2%
- 12NASIRUDDINIndependent · IND4910.9%
- 13GAURI SHANKAR SINGHIndependent · IND900.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- SOP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNP swing
- −21.4%
- INC share
- 30.5% → 25.7%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 16.6%
- Turnout
- — → —