Constituency
58. Sakra
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-SAKRA
INC 57.6%won by 20.1%JNPSC 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 20.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 19.3% to 57.6% of the vote here (+38.3%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 37.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 88.2% — 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
65,008
Margin
13,080
20.12%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1FAKIRCHAND RAMIndian National Congress · INC37,46457.6%
- 2PALTAN RAMJNPSC · JNPSC24,38437.5%
- 3KAPILDEO HAZARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,1793.4%
- 4BACHU LAL AZADINCU · INCU9811.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- +0.8%
- INC share
- 19.3% → 57.6%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- — → —