Election
Constituency

242. Arwal

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1980

BR-ARWAL

IND 21.3%won by 1.5%INC 19.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 1.5%.

  • IND vote shareIND went from 0.4% to 21.3% of the vote here (+20.9%).
  • New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 19.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 41.1% between them, down from 75.2% — the field split more ways.

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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Valid votes
97,493
Margin
1,437
1.47%

Candidates

11 contested · winner IND
  1. 1KRISHNANDAN PD. SINGHIndependent · IND20,74421.3%
  2. 2DEO KUMAR SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC19,30719.8%
  3. 3CHANDRA SHEKHAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI18,36118.8%
  4. 4RAMA NAND SINGHJNPSC · JNPSC15,91416.3%
  5. 5RAMASHISH SINGHSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD14,28214.6%
  6. 6BANESHWAR PRASAD SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,1273.2%
  7. 7DEO RAJ MEHTAJanata Party · JNP2,7552.8%
  8. 8HARI NANDAN RAMIndependent · IND1,6411.7%
  9. 9SUKHDEO LAL MEHTAINCU · INCU8000.8%
  10. 10RAMNAND YADAVIndependent · IND3950.4%
  11. 11MANOJ KUMARIndependent · IND1670.2%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
JNP
Winner now
INDflipped
IND–INC swing
+1.1%
IND share
0.4% → 21.3%
INC share
0.0% → 19.8%
Turnout
— → —
241. Goh243. Kurtha
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