Constituency
250. Gaya Town
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-GAYA-TOWN
INC 28.2%won by 4.7%CPI 23.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.9% to 28.2% of the vote here (−9.7%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 23.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.7% between them, down from 91.8% — 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
65,694
Margin
3,111
4.74%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1JAI KUMAR PALITIndian National Congress · INC18,53028.2%
- 2SHAKIL AHMAD KHANCommunist Party of India · CPI15,41923.5%
- 3DEVENDRA PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,14021.5%
- 4YUGAL KISHORE PRASADINCU · INCU11,50317.5%
- 5SUSHILA SAHAYJanata Party · JNP3,8665.9%
- 6GOPAL LAL MAHTOIndependent · IND7491.1%
- 7GANESH PRASADJNPSR · JNPSR4520.7%
- 8TAPASWI SHARMAIndependent · IND2830.4%
- 9SHAMBHU SHARMAIndependent · IND2390.4%
- 10MD. ISMAILIndependent · IND1850.3%
- 11TRIPURARI SOTIIndependent · IND1830.3%
- 12RAGHUNATH PRASADIndependent · IND1450.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −33.1%
- INC share
- 37.9% → 28.2%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 23.5%
- Turnout
- — → —