Constituency
172. Amarpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-AMARPUR
INC 31.2%won by 3.8%JNPSC 27.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 3.2% to 31.2% of the vote here (+28.0%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 27.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.6% between them, down from 94.6% — 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
79,888
Margin
3,000
3.76%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1NIL MOHAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC24,91231.2%
- 2DHIRENDRA PRASAD YADAVJNPSC · JNPSC21,91227.4%
- 3JANARDHAN YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,06317.6%
- 4MAKESHWAR PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI7,1058.9%
- 5NAND KISHOR SINGHJanata Party · JNP3,8654.8%
- 6BALRAM RAIINCU · INCU2,0752.6%
- 7ISLAMUDDINIndependent · IND1,8292.3%
- 8BANARSI DASIndependent · IND1,4411.8%
- 9SHRI KANT THAKURJNPSR · JNPSR1,2611.6%
- 10RIYAZUDDINIndependent · IND4990.6%
- 11SHREEDHAR PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND4950.6%
- 12JALDHAR MANDALIndependent · IND4310.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- +0.5%
- INC share
- 3.2% → 31.2%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 27.4%
- Turnout
- — → —