Constituency
254. Barachatti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BARACHATTI
INC 43.9%won by 4.2%INCU 39.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 18.6% to 43.9% of the vote here (+25.3%).
- New challengerINCU (INCU) finished second with 39.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.6% between them, down from 97.0% — 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
56,462
Margin
2,373
4.20%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1G. S. RAMCHANDRA DASSIndian National Congress · INC24,79243.9%
- 2MOHAN RAMINCU · INCU22,41939.7%
- 3BHAGWATI DEVIJNPSC · JNPSC4,5148.0%
- 4RAM SWAROOP PASWANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,8523.3%
- 5JAGAN DASSJNPSR · JNPSR1,4452.6%
- 6ASHOK RAMIndependent · IND4700.8%
- 7RAM NARAIN AZADSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD3300.6%
- 8JAGDISH SINGHFBL · FBL3200.6%
- 9SHIV SHANKER DUSADHIndependent · IND1750.3%
- 10SHANKER RAMIndependent · IND1450.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–INCU swing
- −14.4%
- INC share
- 18.6% → 43.9%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 39.7%
- Turnout
- — → —