Election
Constituency

202. Barh

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1980

BR-BARH

IND 38.8%won by 1.6%JNPSC 37.2%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 1.6%.

  • IND vote shareIND went from 18.8% to 38.8% of the vote here (+20.0%).
  • New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 37.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.0% of the vote between them, up from 65.0% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
99,118
Margin
1,586
1.60%

Candidates

10 contested · winner IND
  1. 1VISHWA MOHAN CHOUDHRYIndependent · IND38,47238.8%
  2. 2BIJAY KRISHNA SINGHJNPSC · JNPSC36,88637.2%
  3. 3GAURI SHANKAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,83012.9%
  4. 4RANA SHEO LAKH PATI SINGHINCU · INCU4,9575.0%
  5. 5JITENDRA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND2,5812.6%
  6. 6RAM NARESH SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,1601.2%
  7. 7AMIR HAIDERIndependent · IND9931.0%
  8. 8DEVENDRA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND8690.9%
  9. 9SATHI GIRISH NANDAN SINGHIndependent · IND2300.2%
  10. 10MANIKANT AZADIndependent · IND1400.1%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
JNP
Winner now
INDflipped
IND–JNPSC swing
−17.2%
IND share
18.8% → 38.8%
JNPSC share
0.0% → 37.2%
Turnout
— → —
201. Mokamah203. Bakhtiarpur
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