Constituency
262. Kodarma
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-KODARMA
INC 47.6%won by 25.2%INCU 22.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 25.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 31.4% to 47.6% of the vote here (+16.2%).
- New challengerINCU (INCU) finished second with 22.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.0% between them, down from 84.3% — 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
56,984
Margin
14,362
25.20%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1RAJENDRA NATH DAWNIndian National Congress · INC27,12947.6%
- 2RAMESH PRASAD YADAVINCU · INCU12,76722.4%
- 3ARJUN SAHUJNPSC · JNPSC6,07010.7%
- 4RAMESH SINGHJanata Party · JNP3,3575.9%
- 5DAMODAR SINGHIndependent · IND3,3035.8%
- 6SUKHDEO YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,9845.2%
- 7GIRIJANANDAN PRASAD SINHAIndependent · IND1,0431.8%
- 8ARJUN MAHTOJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM3310.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–INCU swing
- −6.2%
- INC share
- 31.4% → 47.6%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- — → —