Constituency
218. Brahmpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BRAHMPUR
INC 32.1%won by 3.6%BJP 28.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.6%.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 28.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.5% between them, down from 67.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
77,533
Margin
2,774
3.58%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1RISHI KESH TIWARIIndian National Congress · INC24,85232.1%
- 2SWAMI NATH TIWARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,07828.5%
- 3RAM AWADESH CHAUDHARYJNPSC · JNPSC13,04916.8%
- 4JANARDAN RAIJanata Party · JNP6,8228.8%
- 5KAMTA PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,7714.9%
- 6RAM KANT THAKURJNPSR · JNPSR3,6364.7%
- 7LAL SAHEB SINGHIndependent · IND1,7692.3%
- 8CHATURA NAND TIWARIIndependent · IND6770.9%
- 9GITA MISHRAINCU · INCU6330.8%
- 10SHEO NATH PANDEYIndependent · IND1650.2%
- 11HARI PRASAD CHAMARIndependent · IND810.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −28.4%
- INC share
- 32.0% → 32.1%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 28.5%
- Turnout
- — → —