Constituency
38. Taraiya
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-TARAIYA
INC 47.0%won by 13.7%BJP 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 18.0% to 47.0% of the vote here (+29.1%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 33.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.4% between them, down from 95.7% — 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
59,630
Margin
8,163
13.69%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1PRABHU NATH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC28,04247.0%
- 2RAMDAS RAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,87933.3%
- 3SHANKER PRASAD SINGHJanata Party · JNP8,87614.9%
- 4KARAN SINGHJNPSR · JNPSR1,0001.7%
- 5NAND KISHORE SINGHIndependent · IND7131.2%
- 6DHARAM NATH SINGHJNPSC · JNPSC5060.8%
- 7RAM SAKAL SAHIndependent · IND2940.5%
- 8YOGENDRA KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND1880.3%
- 9RAM PRASAD SAHIndependent · IND1320.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −4.3%
- INC share
- 18.0% → 47.0%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- — → —