Constituency
264. Chatra
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-CHATRA
INC 63.1%won by 46.3%BJP 16.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 46.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 4.5% to 63.1% of the vote here (+58.6%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 16.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.9% of the vote between them, up from 71.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
36,405
Margin
16,870
46.34%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1MAHESH RAMIndian National Congress · INC22,97363.1%
- 2BIKU RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,10316.8%
- 3JAGDHARI BHUIYANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,9778.2%
- 4MUSENDRA DASJNPSC · JNPSC1,8385.0%
- 5BIGAN RAMINCU · INCU1,3533.7%
- 6RAMBARAN BHUIYANIndependent · IND1,1613.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +41.9%
- INC share
- 4.5% → 63.1%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 16.8%
- Turnout
- — → —