Election
Constituency

23. Mirganj

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1980

BR-MIRGANJ

JNP 42.6%won by 17.2%INC 25.4%

What changed here

Derived

Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.9% to 17.2%.

  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.0% between them, down from 75.6% — the field split more ways.
  • Multi-cornered4 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
73,166
Margin
12,571
17.18%

Candidates

8 contested · winner JNP
  1. 1RAJ MANGAL MISHRAJanata Party · JNP31,16842.6%
  2. 2ANANT PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC18,59725.4%
  3. 3BHAVESH CHANDRA PARASADJNPSC · JNPSC11,13515.2%
  4. 4BISHWANATH SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,42611.5%
  5. 5RAM CHANDRA RAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,5602.1%
  6. 6SHANTRUGHAN RAI ALIAS SHATRUGHAN DAVIIndependent · IND1,2361.7%
  7. 7KASHI NATH SINGHIndependent · IND6350.9%
  8. 8JANARDHAN KUARIndependent · IND4090.6%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
JNP
Winner now
JNP
JNP–INC swing
+7.3%
JNP share
42.7% → 42.6%
INC share
32.8% → 25.4%
Turnout
— → —
22. Bhore24. Gopalganj
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