Constituency
51. Lalganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-LALGANJ
INC 55.0%won by 30.6%JNPSC 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 30.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 13.1% to 55.0% of the vote here (+42.0%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 24.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.4% of the vote between them, up from 71.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
74,695
Margin
22,857
30.60%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1LALITESHWAR PRASAD SHAHIIndian National Congress · INC41,09855.0%
- 2JAY NARAIN PRASAD NISADJNPSC · JNPSC18,24124.4%
- 3RAM NATH GUPTAINCU · INCU9,54112.8%
- 4INDU BHUSAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI4,2845.7%
- 5HARIBANSH NARAIN SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5570.7%
- 6SHIV SHANKAR SINGHRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP4890.7%
- 7RAM SWAROOP PRASAD GUPTAJNPSR · JNPSR1980.3%
- 8RAM SHANKAR PRASAD YADAVIndependent · IND1230.2%
- 9MAHESHWAR PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND1070.1%
- 10KISHORI PRASAD SINGHJanata Party · JNP570.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- +17.5%
- INC share
- 13.1% → 55.0%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- — → —