Constituency
271. Dhanwar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-DHANWAR
INC 24.2%won by 7.4%BJP 16.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 11.9% to 24.2% of the vote here (+12.3%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 16.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 41.0% between them, down from 69.2% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
53,352
Margin
3,935
7.38%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1TILAKDHARI PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,89224.2%
- 2HARIHAR NARAYAN PRABHAKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,95716.8%
- 3GULAM RASSOOL AZADIndependent · IND7,89514.8%
- 4GURU SAHAY MAHTOIndependent · IND6,53512.2%
- 5RAMESHWAR PRASAD AGARWALJNPSR · JNPSR6,16311.6%
- 6NARAYAN SAOJanata Party · JNP2,6715.0%
- 7BHAGWAN DAS ARYAIndependent · IND2,2264.2%
- 8DEOKI NANDAN SHARMAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2,0973.9%
- 9BRIJNANDAN PRASADINCU · INCU1,3752.6%
- 10RADHEY SHYAM GUPTAJNPSC · JNPSC9651.8%
- 11DARSHAN MARANDIIndependent · IND8481.6%
- 12SATYA NARAYAN YADAVIndependent · IND5691.1%
- 13INDRA NARAYAN YADAVIndependent · IND1590.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −4.5%
- INC share
- 11.9% → 24.2%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 16.8%
- Turnout
- — → —