Constituency
91. Jale
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-JALE
CPI 33.0%won by 8.1%INC 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 8.1%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 37.2% to 33.0% of the vote here (−4.2%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 24.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.8% between them, down from 76.6% — 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
73,766
Margin
5,976
8.10%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1ABDUL SALAMCommunist Party of India · CPI24,31733.0%
- 2SUSHIL KUMAR JHAIndian National Congress · INC18,34124.9%
- 3HIRA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND17,06223.1%
- 4VILAS SAHNIJNPSC · JNPSC7,52910.2%
- 5RAM LAKHAN YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,5627.5%
- 6KAPIL DEO THAKURJanata Party · JNP7111.0%
- 7MOKIMIndependent · IND2440.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- −29.1%
- CPI share
- 37.2% → 33.0%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- — → —