Constituency
98. Dalsinghsarai
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-DALSINGHSARAI
INC 32.4%won by 2.3%JNPSC 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.6% to 32.4% of the vote here (−3.3%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 30.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.4% between them, down from 85.6% — 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
73,366
Margin
1,705
2.32%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1JAGDISH PRASAD CHOUDHARYIndian National Congress · INC23,74532.4%
- 2RAMPADARATH MAHTOJNPSC · JNPSC22,04030.0%
- 3YASHVANT KUMAR CHOUDHARYJanata Party · JNP12,84717.5%
- 4BAIDYANATH CHOUDHARYCommunist Party of India · CPI11,89716.2%
- 5MD. MONIFIndependent · IND1,4672.0%
- 6PRABHANSH RAIJNPSR · JNPSR8461.2%
- 7RAMBALI RAIIndependent · IND2620.4%
- 8KRISHNA NANDAN MEHTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1600.2%
- 9UPENDRA PODDARIndependent · IND1020.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −33.3%
- INC share
- 35.6% → 32.4%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —