Constituency
255. Fatehpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-FATEHPUR
INC 47.7%won by 21.4%INCU 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 21.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.9% to 47.7% of the vote here (+14.8%).
- New challengerINCU (INCU) finished second with 26.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.1% between them, down from 93.4% — 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
62,206
Margin
13,324
21.42%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1JITAN RAM MANJHIIndian National Congress · INC29,70147.7%
- 2RAM NARESH PRASADINCU · INCU16,37726.3%
- 3KALI RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,83211.0%
- 4RADHA MOHAN PASWANJanata Party · JNP4,8337.8%
- 5MATHURA PRASADJNPSC · JNPSC1,8312.9%
- 6PREMAN MANJHIIndependent · IND1,6222.6%
- 7RAMDEO RAJAKJNPSR · JNPSR3300.5%
- 8RAMDEO ARYAIndependent · IND2620.4%
- 9MUNSHI MANJHIIndependent · IND2480.4%
- 10DEOKI CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND1700.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–INCU swing
- −11.5%
- INC share
- 32.9% → 47.7%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —