Constituency
111. Kishanpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-KISHANPUR
INC 24.2%won by 0.4%JNPSC 23.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.7% to 24.2% of the vote here (+3.5%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 23.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 47.9% between them, down from 92.8% — 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
74,287
Margin
309
0.42%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1VISHWANATH GURMAITAIndian National Congress · INC17,95224.2%
- 2YADUBANS KUMAR YADAVJNPSC · JNPSC17,64323.7%
- 3HARI PRASAD SAHIndependent · IND12,44116.7%
- 4BAIDYANATH MEHTAJanata Party · JNP8,02510.8%
- 5GUNA NAND THAKURINCU · INCU6,0998.2%
- 6CHANDRA SHEKHAR YADAVIndependent · IND4,2145.7%
- 7DEO KARAN BISHWASIndependent · IND3,2804.4%
- 8RAJENDRA KAMATIndependent · IND2,3103.1%
- 9SUKANI KAMATJNPSR · JNPSR1,6472.2%
- 10NARENDRA RAMIndependent · IND6760.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −20.3%
- INC share
- 20.7% → 24.2%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 23.7%
- Turnout
- — → —