Constituency
5. Sikta
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-SIKTA
JNP 54.0%won by 16.6%INC 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 16.6%.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 54.0% of the vote here (+54.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.5% of the vote between them, up from 78.2% — 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
68,094
Margin
11,296
16.59%
Candidates
5 contested · winner JNP- 1DHARMESH PRASAD VERMAJanata Party · JNP36,79954.0%
- 2FAIYAZUL AZAMIndian National Congress · INC25,50337.5%
- 3SHRINIVAS PANDEYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,7086.9%
- 4GORKHNATH VIDYARTHIIndependent · IND6591.0%
- 5SHIVAJEEIndependent · IND4250.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–INC swing
- +75.3%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 54.0%
- INC share
- 58.7% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- — → —