Constituency
227. Dinara
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-DINARA
INC 40.4%won by 8.1%JNPSC 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.2% to 40.4% of the vote here (+16.2%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 32.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.6% of the vote between them, up from 56.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
85,950
Margin
7,001
8.15%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1LAKSHMAN RAIIndian National Congress · INC34,70840.4%
- 2RAMDHANI SINGHJNPSC · JNPSC27,70732.2%
- 3RAM NARAIN SAHJNPSR · JNPSR12,22414.2%
- 4RAM KRISHNA SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,8306.8%
- 5RAM SHANKAR SARKARINCU · INCU4,2985.0%
- 6JITENDRA PRASAD SINGHJanata Party · JNP9121.1%
- 7CHITRANJAN PRASADIndependent · IND1300.2%
- 8KAMTA PD. SINGHIndependent · IND740.1%
- 9YAMUNA SINGHIndependent · IND670.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −16.0%
- INC share
- 24.2% → 40.4%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —