Constituency
6. Lauria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-LAURIA
INC 56.5%won by 31.5%JNP 25.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.5% to 31.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.5% of the vote between them, up from 47.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
55,487
Margin
17,483
31.51%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1VISHWAMOHAN SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC31,34456.5%
- 2AJAJ AHMADJanata Party · JNP13,86125.0%
- 3RAM PRASAD YADAVINCU · INCU7,54713.6%
- 4JAGNNATH PRASADJNPSC · JNPSC2,7354.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- +13.0%
- INC share
- 32.9% → 56.5%
- JNP share
- 14.3% → 25.0%
- Turnout
- — → —