Constituency
42. Garkha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-GARKHA
INC 30.9%won by 5.6%JNPSC 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.3% to 30.9% of the vote here (+6.7%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 25.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.3% between them, down from 96.6% — 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
53,638
Margin
2,977
5.55%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1RAGHU NANDAN MANJIIndian National Congress · INC16,58630.9%
- 2AMRIT CHOUDHARYJNPSC · JNPSC13,60925.4%
- 3MUNESHWAR CHOUDHARYJanata Party · JNP13,55525.3%
- 4SHEO DAYAL RAI ALIAS SHEO DAYAL DASCommunist Party of India · CPI7,63914.2%
- 5SHAMBOO CHOUDHARYJNPSR · JNPSR1,0962.0%
- 6RAJA RAM DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7341.4%
- 7RAVINDRA NATH RAVIIndependent · IND4190.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −18.7%
- INC share
- 24.3% → 30.9%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —