Constituency
14. Dhaka
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-DHAKA
INC 43.9%won by 22.7%IND 21.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 22.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.7% to 43.9% of the vote here (+15.3%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.2% between them, down from 73.0% — 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
96,904
Margin
21,953
22.65%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1MOTIUR RAHMANIndian National Congress · INC42,57243.9%
- 2PREM SHANKER KUMARIndependent · IND20,61921.3%
- 3NEK MOHAMMAD AKHTARCommunist Party of India · CPI11,91512.3%
- 4SHEO CHARAN SINGHJNPSC · JNPSC11,51911.9%
- 5TRIYOGI NARAIN JHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,7138.0%
- 6SIYA RAM THAKURJanata Party · JNP7900.8%
- 7SATYA NARAIN SHARMAIndependent · IND7310.8%
- 8LAL BABU PRASAD SAHIndependent · IND4150.4%
- 9SAHBANJAN MIANIndependent · IND3400.4%
- 10RAM NANDAN SINGHJNPSR · JNPSR2900.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- +11.0%
- INC share
- 28.7% → 43.9%
- IND share
- 17.0% → 21.3%
- Turnout
- — → —