Constituency
163. Godda
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-GODDA
INC 46.4%won by 5.7%JMM 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 10.9% to 46.4% of the vote here (+35.4%).
- New challengerJharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished second with 40.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
93,619
Margin
5,375
5.74%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1HEMANT KUMAR JHAIndian National Congress · INC43,41046.4%
- 2SUMRIT MANDALJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM38,03540.6%
- 3KHAGENDRA PD. THAKURCommunist Party of India · CPI4,8045.1%
- 4DHANANJAY MAHTOJNPSC · JNPSC4,3204.6%
- 5SAYEEDJanata Party · JNP1,4541.6%
- 6VISHNU MANJHIIndependent · IND8110.9%
- 7VINAY KANT DUBEYIndependent · IND4950.5%
- 8LAKHAN MAHTONBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2900.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JMM swing
- −5.2%
- INC share
- 10.9% → 46.4%
- JMM share
- 0.0% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —