Constituency
55. Baruraj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BARURAJ
INC 34.8%won by 1.2%JNPSC 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 17.0% to 34.8% of the vote here (+17.8%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 33.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 68.5% of the vote between them, up from 49.1% — 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
86,510
Margin
1,007
1.16%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1JAMUNA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC30,12934.8%
- 2SHASHI KUMAR RAIJNPSC · JNPSC29,12233.7%
- 3BALENDRA PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI22,86526.4%
- 4BHAVEHANDRA PANDEYJanata Party · JNP2,7433.2%
- 5ANJANI KUMAR PRASAD MISHRAIndependent · IND1,6511.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −15.8%
- INC share
- 17.0% → 34.8%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —