Constituency
127. Raniganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-RANIGANJ
INC 44.1%won by 14.3%JNPSC 29.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 31.9% to 44.1% of the vote here (+12.2%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 29.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.9% between them, down from 79.5% — 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
54,540
Margin
7,822
14.34%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1YAMUNA PRASAD RAMIndian National Congress · INC24,07044.1%
- 2SUKH DEO PASWANJNPSC · JNPSC16,24829.8%
- 3BUNDEL PASWANIndependent · IND8,50015.6%
- 4ADHIK LAL PASWANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,7575.1%
- 5BUDH DEO RISHIIndependent · IND2,6194.8%
- 6SHUK DEO PASWANIndependent · IND1760.3%
- 7DEEP NARAIN PASWANJanata Party · JNP1700.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −17.6%
- INC share
- 31.9% → 44.1%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 29.8%
- Turnout
- — → —