Constituency
171. Sultanganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-SULTANGANJ
INC 36.8%won by 13.7%JNPSC 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.7% to 36.8% of the vote here (+7.1%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 23.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.0% between them, down from 78.9% — 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
70,879
Margin
9,737
13.74%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1NAND KUMAR MANJHIIndian National Congress · INC26,11736.8%
- 2FANINDRA CHOUDHARYJNPSC · JNPSC16,38023.1%
- 3JAGDISH MANJHICommunist Party of India · CPI15,07221.3%
- 4GOVIND DAS SHASTRIIndependent · IND6,1138.6%
- 5NARSINGH PRA MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,8875.5%
- 6NARESH MOHAN DASJanata Party · JNP1,6782.4%
- 7JAI PRAKASH GAUTAMJNPSR · JNPSR5500.8%
- 8JAG MOHAN DASIndependent · IND3670.5%
- 9BHAJANO DAS ALIAS BHAJNARAIN JIIndependent · IND2650.4%
- 10DRAUPADI DEVIIndependent · IND2450.3%
- 11MOTI LAL DASIndependent · IND2050.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −16.0%
- INC share
- 29.7% → 36.8%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- — → —