Constituency
154. Nala
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-NALA
CPI 37.4%won by 7.3%IND 30.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.2% to 7.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.5% between them, down from 77.0% — 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
53,325
Margin
3,881
7.28%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1BISHESHWAR KHANCommunist Party of India · CPI19,94437.4%
- 2UMA PRASANNA MAHTOIndependent · IND16,06330.1%
- 3NAND LAL SORENJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM12,89124.2%
- 4BHAGWAT SINGH AZADJanata Party · JNP3,0145.7%
- 5SACHINDRA NATH GHOSHIndependent · IND8011.5%
- 6BASANT KUMAR MISHRAIndependent · IND6121.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–IND swing
- −41.4%
- CPI share
- 55.6% → 37.4%
- IND share
- 6.9% → 30.1%
- Turnout
- — → —