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146. Manihari

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1980

BR-MANIHARI

JNP 39.5%won by 3.1%INC 36.4%

What changed here

Derived

Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.0% to 3.1%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
51,088
Margin
1,595
3.12%

Candidates

8 contested · winner JNP
  1. 1RAM SIPAHI YADAVJanata Party · JNP20,17539.5%
  2. 2MUBARAK HUSSAINIndian National Congress · INC18,58036.4%
  3. 3SAGIR AHMADCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,48416.6%
  4. 4VIR BIKRAMIndependent · IND1,2702.5%
  5. 5DEOKRISHNA SINGHIndependent · IND1,0212.0%
  6. 6RAM SHANKAR CHATURVEDIIndependent · IND7351.4%
  7. 7PRADUMAN KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND4730.9%
  8. 8DHARMNATH PRASAD ROYJNPSC · JNPSC3500.7%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
JNP
Winner now
JNP
JNP–INC swing
−35.8%
JNP share
55.8% → 39.5%
INC share
16.8% → 36.4%
Turnout
— → —
145. Pranpur147. Rajmahal
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