Constituency
40. Jalalpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-JALALPUR
INC 36.7%won by 15.8%BJP 20.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 18.7% to 36.7% of the vote here (+18.0%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 20.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.7% between them, down from 77.9% — 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
66,262
Margin
10,447
15.77%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1KUMAR KALIKA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC24,32636.7%
- 2MADHUSUDAN SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,87920.9%
- 3RAJ KISHORE RAICommunist Party of India · CPI11,07016.7%
- 4BAMESHWAR SINGHJanata Party · JNP9,67914.6%
- 5SRI BAHGWAN RAIJNPSC · JNPSC6,1089.2%
- 6AJAY AJNABIIndependent · IND7631.2%
- 7RAM DASIndependent · IND2650.4%
- 8SURENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND1720.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −2.9%
- INC share
- 18.7% → 36.7%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 20.9%
- Turnout
- — → —