Constituency
170. Bihpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BIHPUR
INC 37.1%won by 12.5%BJP 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 37.1% of the vote here (+37.1%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 24.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.6% between them, down from 73.7% — 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
70,969
Margin
8,882
12.52%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1RAJENDRA PRASAD SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC26,31637.1%
- 2VRAHMA DEO MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,43424.6%
- 3RAFIQUE UDDIN MATAWALAIndependent · IND9,59313.5%
- 4PURUSHOTAM KUMARJNPSC · JNPSC7,22810.2%
- 5SITARAM SINGH AZADCommunist Party of India · CPI6,9469.8%
- 6RAM BRIKSHA KUMARJanata Party · JNP1,6142.3%
- 7VISHESHVAR YADAVJNPSR · JNPSR1,0961.5%
- 8RAMA SHANKAR PRASAD DEOIndependent · IND4390.6%
- 9KISHOR K. YADAVIndependent · IND3030.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +12.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 37.1%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —