Constituency
177. Chakai
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1977
BR-CHAKAI
IND 28.0%won by 0.2%JNP 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 0.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.9% to 28.0% of the vote here (+27.1%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 27.8% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.8% between them, down from 73.1% — 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
47,131
Margin
95
0.20%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1FALGUNI PD. YADAVIndependent · IND13,19728.0%
- 2KUMAR NARENDRA PD. SINGHJanata Party · JNP13,10227.8%
- 3CHANDRA SHEKHAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC11,04823.4%
- 4SADANAND ROYIndependent · IND7,10115.1%
- 5MOHAN PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND2,2924.9%
- 6J.N.P VERMAIndependent · IND3910.8%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–JNP swing
- −0.7%
- IND share
- 0.9% → 28.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- — → —