Constituency
270. Barkatha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BARKATHA
CPI 32.2%won by 2.4%INC 29.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 2.4%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 32.2% of the vote here (+32.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.0% between them, down from 89.1% — 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
57,397
Margin
1,389
2.42%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1BHUWANESHWAR PRASAD MEHTACommunist Party of India · CPI18,48232.2%
- 2LALITA RAJYA LAXMIIndian National Congress · INC17,09329.8%
- 3KHAGENDRA PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,63422.0%
- 4VISHWANATH MODIJNPSC · JNPSC3,5566.2%
- 5ABDUL SAKURINCU · INCU2,8755.0%
- 6BULAKI GOPEIndependent · IND1,5752.7%
- 7BHOLA NATH SAHAYJanata Party · JNP7561.3%
- 8SUKHDEO YADAVIndependent · IND4260.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +15.1%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- INC share
- 12.7% → 29.8%
- Turnout
- — → —