Constituency
73. Benipatti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BENIPATTI
INC 36.7%won by 5.7%CPI 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 36.7% of the vote here (+36.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.7% between them, down from 91.3% — 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
79,562
Margin
4,540
5.71%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1YUGESHWAR JHAIndian National Congress · INC29,18636.7%
- 2TEJNARAIN JHACommunist Party of India · CPI24,64631.0%
- 3SHALIGRAM YADAVJNPSC · JNPSC22,47128.2%
- 4NARMDESHWAR SINGHJanata Party · JNP2,3593.0%
- 5BRAJ KANT JHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9001.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +56.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 36.7%
- CPI share
- 50.8% → 31.0%
- Turnout
- — → —