Constituency
18. Kesaria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-KESARIA
JNP 31.0%won by 2.5%INC 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 2.5%.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 43.1% to 31.0% of the vote here (−12.1%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 28.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.6% between them, down from 97.6% — 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
76,077
Margin
1,884
2.48%
Candidates
11 contested · winner JNP- 1RAI HARISHANKAR SHARMAJanata Party · JNP23,60431.0%
- 2LAXMAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC21,72028.6%
- 3PITAMBER SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI20,71927.2%
- 4SITARAM PRASAD YADAVJNPSR · JNPSR3,9395.2%
- 5ALLUDINIndependent · IND2,8583.8%
- 6RAMLOCHAN RAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,6682.2%
- 7PRAMANAND PATHAKIndependent · IND6610.9%
- 8GANGA SAHANIIndependent · IND3970.5%
- 9GIRJANANDAN SINGHIndependent · IND2620.3%
- 10SUDAMA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND1840.2%
- 11FULENA PRASADIndependent · IND650.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–INC swing
- −40.6%
- JNP share
- 43.1% → 31.0%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 28.6%
- Turnout
- — → —