Constituency
86. Ghanshyampur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-GHANSHYAMPUR
INC 58.0%won by 21.8%JNPSC 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 21.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 10.9% to 58.0% of the vote here (+47.1%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 36.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.2% of the vote between them, up from 87.0% — 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
1,13,925
Margin
24,885
21.84%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1MAHENDRA NARAIN JHAIndian National Congress · INC66,09358.0%
- 2MAHABIR PRASADJNPSC · JNPSC41,20836.2%
- 3JAIKRISHNA PRASADJanata Party · JNP5,8695.2%
- 4BIDYANATH JHA VIDITBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4460.4%
- 5BISHNU DEO JHAIndependent · IND1390.1%
- 6MAHENDRA NARAIN PANDEYINCU · INCU930.1%
- 7NASIM MAHAMADIndependent · IND770.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- +10.9%
- INC share
- 10.9% → 58.0%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- — → —