Constituency
36. Baniapur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BANIAPUR
INC 39.1%won by 9.3%BJP 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.4% to 39.1% of the vote here (+18.6%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 29.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.8% between them, down from 85.0% — 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
56,908
Margin
5,312
9.33%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1UMA PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC22,22839.1%
- 2RAMA KANT PANDEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,91629.7%
- 3RAM BAHADUR RAIINCU · INCU11,09419.5%
- 4ARJUN PRASADJNPSC · JNPSC3,6346.4%
- 5RAMANAND MISHRAJanata Party · JNP2,2914.0%
- 6MUHAMMAD ALIMJNPSR · JNPSR7451.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −11.1%
- INC share
- 20.4% → 39.1%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —