Constituency
157. Madhupur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-MADHUPUR
INC 54.7%won by 35.8%BJP 18.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 35.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.4% to 54.7% of the vote here (+16.3%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 18.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.5% between them, down from 85.5% — 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
59,478
Margin
21,303
35.82%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1KRISHNA NAND JHAIndian National Congress · INC32,50854.7%
- 2AJIT KUMAR BANERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,20518.8%
- 3PANCHA NAND ROYINCU · INCU3,8676.5%
- 4GOPAL CHANDRA PRASADJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM3,3795.7%
- 5SHIV NANDAN MANDALIndependent · IND2,3704.0%
- 6ASTANAND JHAJNPSC · JNPSC2,0783.5%
- 7BINOD KUMAR MURMUIndependent · IND1,5032.5%
- 8GANGA KHAWAREJanata Party · JNP5901.0%
- 9ABDUL WAHID ANWARIndependent · IND5440.9%
- 10MD. SUHEL AKHTARIndependent · IND5120.9%
- 11SURESH CHANDRA ROYIndependent · IND4510.8%
- 12DURGA MURMUIndependent · IND3040.5%
- 13NAVA KUMAR DASIndependent · IND1670.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −2.6%
- INC share
- 38.4% → 54.7%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 18.8%
- Turnout
- — → —