Constituency
66. Sheohar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-SHEOHAR
INC 54.0%won by 8.3%IND 45.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,01,920
Margin
8,502
8.34%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1RAGHUNATH JHAIndian National Congress · INC55,04454.0%
- 2JAFIR ALAMIndependent · IND46,54245.7%
- 3LALAN RAIIndependent · IND3340.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −14.4%
- INC share
- 45.7% → 54.0%
- IND share
- 22.9% → 45.7%
- Turnout
- — → —