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60. Bochaha

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1980

BR-BOCHAHA

JNP 30.5%won by 6.7%CPI 23.7%

What changed here

Derived

Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 43.0% to 6.7%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 34.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 23.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.2% between them, down from 86.7% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
57,950
Margin
3,911
6.75%

Candidates

8 contested · winner JNP
  1. 1RAMAI RAMJanata Party · JNP17,66330.5%
  2. 2RIGHAN RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI13,75223.7%
  3. 3KAMAL PASWANJNPSC · JNPSC13,51423.3%
  4. 4RAGHUBIR PRASADIndian National Congress · INC10,89818.8%
  5. 5UMESH RAJAKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9381.6%
  6. 6RAMBRIKESHHA CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND6491.1%
  7. 7RAM CHANDRA CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND3030.5%
  8. 8RAM SWAROOP MAHTOIndependent · IND2330.4%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
JNP
Winner now
JNP
JNP–CPI swing
−58.1%
JNP share
64.8% → 30.5%
CPI share
0.0% → 23.7%
Turnout
— → —
59. Muzaffarpur61. Gaighatti
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