Constituency
61. Gaighatti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-GAIGHATTI
BJP 33.5%won by 16.8%JNPSC 16.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 16.8%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 0.0% to 33.5% of the vote here (+33.5%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 16.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 50.2% between them, down from 89.0% — 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
78,072
Margin
13,145
16.84%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1JITENDRA PRASAD SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP26,15733.5%
- 2VINODANAND SINGHJNPSC · JNPSC13,01216.7%
- 3MADHURENDRA KUMAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,48416.0%
- 4MAHESHWAR PRASAD SINGHJNPSR · JNPSR8,13210.4%
- 5RAM BABU SINGHINCU · INCU6,7288.6%
- 6GAURI SHANKAR PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND5,5797.1%
- 7VISHNUDEO SINGHIndependent · IND3,5304.5%
- 8VIJYA SINGHJanata Party · JNP2,0112.6%
- 9RAM LALA MISRAIndependent · IND2610.3%
- 10BHARAT SINGHIndependent · IND1780.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–JNPSC swing
- +16.8%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 33.5%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 16.7%
- Turnout
- — → —