Constituency
263. Barhi
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BARHI
INC 30.4%won by 6.2%CPI 24.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 15.4% to 30.4% of the vote here (+15.0%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 24.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.6% between them, down from 75.0% — 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
40,433
Margin
2,501
6.19%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1NIRANJAN PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,29830.4%
- 2RAM LAKHAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI9,79724.2%
- 3RAM NARAIN PRASAD YADAVIndependent · IND9,43923.3%
- 4W. H. RIZWIIndependent · IND2,7486.8%
- 5AMBIKA SINGHINCU · INCU2,1095.2%
- 6MURLI DHAR MEHTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,6244.0%
- 7HARI LALIndependent · IND1,0632.6%
- 8ALLAUDDIN AHMAD WARKATIJNPSR · JNPSR7621.9%
- 9AWADH KISHORE SINGHJanata Party · JNP5931.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −9.2%
- INC share
- 15.4% → 30.4%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 24.2%
- Turnout
- — → —