Constituency
158. Deoghar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-DEOGHAR
INC 48.3%won by 33.0%CPI 15.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 33.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.7% to 48.3% of the vote here (+19.6%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 15.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.6% between them, down from 92.9% — 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
47,600
Margin
15,699
32.98%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1BAIDYA NATH DASIndian National Congress · INC22,99648.3%
- 2RABI KANT DASCommunist Party of India · CPI7,29715.3%
- 3HARI CHAND SINGHJanata Party · JNP5,22511.0%
- 4JAG NARAYAN DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,76110.0%
- 5SHIV RAM CHAUDHARYJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM3,6687.7%
- 6VEENA RANIJNPSC · JNPSC3,2846.9%
- 7RAMESHWAR DASIndependent · IND3690.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +4.3%
- INC share
- 28.7% → 48.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 15.3%
- Turnout
- — → —