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Constituency

66. Sheohar

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1980

BR-SHEOHAR

INC 54.0%won by 8.3%IND 45.7%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.5% to 8.3%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Independent (IND).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.7% of the vote between them, up from 74.9% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,01,920
Margin
8,502
8.34%

Candidates

3 contested · winner INC
  1. 1RAGHUNATH JHAIndian National Congress · INC55,04454.0%
  2. 2JAFIR ALAMIndependent · IND46,54245.7%
  3. 3LALAN RAIIndependent · IND3340.3%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCIND swing
−14.4%
INC share
45.7% 54.0%
IND share
22.9% 45.7%
Turnout