Constituency
26. Baikunthpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BAIKUNTHPUR
JNP 29.6%won by 10.1%JNPSC 19.6%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.9% to 10.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 33.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 19.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.2% between them, down from 90.8% — 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
66,729
Margin
6,718
10.07%
Candidates
8 contested · winner JNP- 1BRAJ KISHORE NARAIN SINGHJanata Party · JNP19,78529.6%
- 2DEDOAT RAIJNPSC · JNPSC13,06719.6%
- 3MANDEO TIWARYIndependent · IND11,59517.4%
- 4SHARDA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC9,23913.8%
- 5RAMSHAROTA PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI5,6888.5%
- 6BALIRAM PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,2297.8%
- 7HARENDRA NATH PRASADJNPSR · JNPSR1,8942.8%
- 8SADEO RAMIndependent · IND2320.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–JNPSC swing
- −53.3%
- JNP share
- 63.4% → 29.6%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 19.6%
- Turnout
- — → —