Constituency
253. Bodh Gaya
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BODH-GAYA
CPI 35.4%won by 0.2%JNPSC 35.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 0.2%.
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 35.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.5% between them, down from 95.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
61,984
Margin
115
0.19%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1BALIK RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI21,91335.4%
- 2RAJESH KUMARJNPSC · JNPSC21,79835.2%
- 3NAGESHWAR PASWANIndian National Congress · INC14,37923.2%
- 4YAMUNA PRASADJanata Party · JNP2,6324.2%
- 5JOHAN RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4750.8%
- 6SANICHAR BHUIANIndependent · IND3850.6%
- 7RAMJEE MANJHIINCU · INCU3580.6%
- 8SITA RAM DUSADHJNPSR · JNPSR440.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–JNPSC swing
- −32.8%
- CPI share
- 33.0% → 35.4%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 35.2%
- Turnout
- — → —