Constituency
186. Jamalpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1977
BR-JAMALPUR
JNP 63.7%won by 41.9%CPI 21.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 41.9%.
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 63.7% of the vote here (+63.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.5% of the vote between them, up from 66.4% — 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
64,704
Margin
27,118
41.91%
Candidates
11 contested · winner JNP- 1SURESH KUMAR SINGHJanata Party · JNP41,22663.7%
- 2KAMLESHWARI YADAVCommunist Party of India · CPI14,10821.8%
- 3YOGENDRA MAHTONIndian National Congress · INC3,0504.7%
- 4SURESH TANTIIndependent · IND1,5472.4%
- 5SURENDRA MANDALIndependent · IND1,2882.0%
- 6RADHEY SHYAM YADAVIndependent · IND1,0511.6%
- 7VASUDEO PD. SHARMAIndependent · IND7731.2%
- 8BANARSI DASIndependent · IND6441.0%
- 9NAKULDEO TANTIIndependent · IND4510.7%
- 10GURUDAYAL TRIVIKRAMIndependent · IND3100.5%
- 11MAHEDNRA YADAVIndependent · IND2560.4%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–CPI swing
- +74.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 63.7%
- CPI share
- 32.1% → 21.8%
- Turnout
- — → —