Constituency
122. Kishanganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-KISHANGANJ
INC 32.0%won by 2.3%JNPSC 29.7%
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 16.5% to 32.0% of the vote here (+15.5%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 29.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.7% between them, down from 68.0% — 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
71,908
Margin
1,624
2.26%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SINGHESHWAR MEHTAIndian National Congress · INC22,98632.0%
- 2RAJ NANDAN PRASADJNPSC · JNPSC21,36229.7%
- 3KAMESHWAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI19,46227.1%
- 4LALAN KUMAR YADAVINCU · INCU2,8654.0%
- 5LAXMESHWAR MAHTOIndependent · IND2,4183.4%
- 6ASHOK KUMAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,2451.7%
- 7SHASHI NATH JHAJanata Party · JNP1,2431.7%
- 8JAI PRAKASH GUPTAIndependent · IND3270.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −14.2%
- INC share
- 16.5% → 32.0%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —