Constituency
1. Dhanaha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-DHANAHA
INC 35.8%won by 16.5%JNPSC 19.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.4% to 16.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 19.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.0% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
40,617
Margin
6,717
16.54%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1HARDEO PRASADIndian National Congress · INC14,53535.8%
- 2RANG LALL PRASADJNPSC · JNPSC7,81819.2%
- 3SACHIDA NAND PANDEYIndependent · IND7,53518.6%
- 4YOGENDRA PRASAD SHRIVASTAVAJanata Party · JNP7,40418.2%
- 5SATYANARAYAN PRASAD GUPTAIndependent · IND1,4883.7%
- 6PREM CHAND TIWARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7151.8%
- 7JANARDAN TIWARIIndependent · IND5791.4%
- 8PREM CHAND SINGHIndependent · IND5431.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −33.6%
- INC share
- 50.2% → 35.8%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 19.2%
- Turnout
- — → —