Constituency
259. Gobindpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-GOBINDPUR
INC 46.5%won by 27.1%BJP 19.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 27.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.9% to 46.5% of the vote here (+7.6%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 19.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.9% between them, down from 90.3% — 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
90,340
Margin
24,484
27.10%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1GAYATRI DEVIIndian National Congress · INC42,01946.5%
- 2LAXMI NARAYAN SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,53519.4%
- 3KRISHAN CHANDRA MAHTOCommunist Party of India · CPI9,74310.8%
- 4AMRIT PRASADINCU · INCU9,31110.3%
- 5SITA RAM PRASAD AKELAJNPSC · JNPSC7,0397.8%
- 6RAMSWARUP PRASAD YADAVIndependent · IND2,5202.8%
- 7BHATTU MAHTOJanata Party · JNP5230.6%
- 8ARJUN YADAVIndependent · IND4310.5%
- 9MAHABIR PRASAD YADAVJNPSR · JNPSR3870.4%
- 10SARDAR BILASH SINGHIndependent · IND3120.3%
- 11ABHIMANUA PRASADIndependent · IND3100.3%
- 12GAUTAM MISHRAIndependent · IND1410.2%
- 13NARESH KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND690.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −11.8%
- INC share
- 38.9% → 46.5%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 19.4%
- Turnout
- — → —