EElectionLens
Constituency

226. Bikramganj

Community mirror

Bihar Assembly Election, 1980

BR-BIKRAMGANJ

JNP 32.6%won by 15.5%INC 17.1%

What changed here

Derived

Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.0% to 15.5%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 17.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.8% between them, down from 68.0% — 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
84,933
Margin
13,159
15.49%

Candidates

14 contested · winner JNP
  1. 1AKHLAQUE AHMADJanata Party · JNP27,71132.6%
  2. 2RAJMUKH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC14,55217.1%
  3. 3SANT PD. SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI12,12314.3%
  4. 4RAMESHWAR CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND10,93112.9%
  5. 5MEGHRAJ MEDHAVISanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD9,07410.7%
  6. 6NARENDRA KUMAR SINGHJNPSC · JNPSC6,0557.1%
  7. 7KANTA PD. SINGHINCU · INCU1,7242.0%
  8. 8AKSHYA KUMAR MISHRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,0401.2%
  9. 9VRAJ BIHARY CHAUDHARYJNPSR · JNPSR1,0151.2%
  10. 10SURYADEO SINGHIndependent · IND2330.3%
  11. 11MANGLESHWAR PANDEYIndependent · IND1540.2%
  12. 12NAND BIHARI PANDEYIndependent · IND1240.1%
  13. 13LAKSHMAN SINGHIndependent · IND1060.1%
  14. 14SUDAMA SINGHIndependent · IND910.1%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
JNP
Winner now
JNP
JNP–INC swing
−27.0%
JNP share
42.5% → 32.6%
INC share
0.0% → 17.1%
Turnout
— → —
225. Karakat227. Dinara
Back to the BR Assembly 1980 explorer