Constituency
37. Masrakh
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-MASRAKH
INC 45.3%won by 21.2%INCU 24.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 21.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 14.4% to 45.3% of the vote here (+30.9%).
- New challengerINCU (INCU) finished second with 24.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.4% between them, down from 80.2% — 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
66,076
Margin
13,998
21.18%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1RAM DEO SINGHIndian National Congress · INC29,92745.3%
- 2KASHI NATH RAIINCU · INCU15,92924.1%
- 3SHANTI B. NR. SAMANJAYCommunist Party of India · CPI8,08912.2%
- 4KRISHNADEO NARAIN SINGHJanata Party · JNP5,5128.3%
- 5BRIJ BHUSHAN SINGHIndependent · IND4,3666.6%
- 6BAIJ NATH SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,6862.6%
- 7BRAHA DAYAL SINGHIndependent · IND3460.5%
- 8RAMAGYA KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND1440.2%
- 9PARMEHSWAR DAYAL SINGHIndependent · IND770.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–INCU swing
- +6.8%
- INC share
- 14.4% → 45.3%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 24.1%
- Turnout
- — → —