Constituency
194. Bihar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1977
BR-BIHAR
CPI 29.1%won by 0.3%JNP 28.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 0.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 38.5% to 29.1% of the vote here (−9.4%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 28.7% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.8% between them, down from 82.5% — 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
78,174
Margin
247
0.32%
Candidates
12 contested · winner CPI- 1DEVNATH PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI22,72129.1%
- 2TAQUE REHMANJanata Party · JNP22,47428.7%
- 3RAJ KISHORE PRASADIndependent · IND11,27514.4%
- 4SHYAM NANDAN SINGHIndependent · IND6,7688.7%
- 5CHANDRABHAN PRASADIndependent · IND4,7396.1%
- 6NASIMUDDIN ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC4,4715.7%
- 7UMESH PRASADIndependent · IND3,3724.3%
- 8KAPURCHAND SUCHANTIIndependent · IND9191.2%
- 9YOGENDRA MAHTOIndependent · IND7721.0%
- 10MD. SAZZADIndependent · IND2810.4%
- 11SOMAR RAMIndependent · IND2310.3%
- 12AKHTAR KHANIndependent · IND1510.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–JNP swing
- −38.1%
- CPI share
- 38.5% → 29.1%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 28.7%
- Turnout
- — → —