Constituency
117. Saharsa
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-SAHARSA
INC 66.8%won by 56.3%CPI 10.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 56.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.2% to 66.8% of the vote here (+26.6%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 10.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.3% between them, down from 93.1% — 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
95,185
Margin
53,555
56.26%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1RAMESH JHAIndian National Congress · INC63,58066.8%
- 2JANARDAN PANDEYCommunist Party of India · CPI10,02510.5%
- 3SHANKAR PRASAD TEKRIWALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,8458.2%
- 4BHUBNESHWAR JHAINCU · INCU7,2167.6%
- 5SURESH CHANDRA YADAVJNPSC · JNPSC4,6184.9%
- 6SURESH PRASAD YADAVJanata Party · JNP1,4451.5%
- 7CHANDRA NATH THAKURIndependent · IND2570.3%
- 8KAMLESHWARI PRASAD YADAVIndependent · IND1990.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +16.0%
- INC share
- 40.2% → 66.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 10.5%
- Turnout
- — → —