Constituency
10. Raxaul
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-RAXAUL
INC 37.4%won by 18.4%JNP 19.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.9% to 18.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.3% between them, down from 79.4% — 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
62,345
Margin
11,497
18.44%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SAGIR AHMADIndian National Congress · INC23,31337.4%
- 2RADHA PANDEYJanata Party · JNP11,81619.0%
- 3RAJ NANDAN PRASADJNPSC · JNPSC11,75218.8%
- 4SHANKER PRASAD YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,59212.2%
- 5BHUDEO NARAIN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI7,25511.6%
- 6DEO NARAIN PRASADIndependent · IND4790.8%
- 7UMAKANT TIWARIIndependent · IND1380.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- +11.6%
- INC share
- 43.1% → 37.4%
- JNP share
- 36.3% → 19.0%
- Turnout
- — → —