Constituency
220. Rajpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-RAJPUR
INC 27.0%won by 0.5%JNPSC 26.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 27.0% of the vote here (+27.0%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 26.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 53.6% between them, down from 91.4% — 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
51,832
Margin
250
0.48%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1CHATURI RAMIndian National Congress · INC14,00527.0%
- 2NAND KISHORE PRASADJNPSC · JNPSC13,75526.5%
- 3RAM NARAIN HARIJANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,39320.1%
- 4DHARAMRAJ PASWANCommunist Party of India · CPI8,47116.3%
- 5RAM ASHARAY RAMIndependent · IND2,4244.7%
- 6RAM LA CHAMARIndependent · IND1,4082.7%
- 7RAJESHAR RAVIDASINCU · INCU1,3762.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- +0.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 27.0%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 26.5%
- Turnout
- — → —