Constituency
109. Bakhri
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BAKHRI
CPI 43.2%won by 10.9%INC 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.9% to 10.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 32.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.5% between them, down from 89.1% — 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
57,841
Margin
6,332
10.95%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1RAMCHANDRA PASWANCommunist Party of India · CPI25,01243.2%
- 2YUGAL KISHORE SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC18,68032.3%
- 3UPENDRA PASWANIndependent · IND12,30921.3%
- 4BHUNESHWAR DASJNPSC · JNPSC8011.4%
- 5MEDNI PASWANJanata Party · JNP5581.0%
- 6SHYAMA DEVIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4810.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −54.0%
- CPI share
- 65.0% → 43.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —