Constituency
289. Potka
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-POTKA
BJP 34.7%won by 7.3%IND 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 7.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 0.0% to 34.7% of the vote here (+34.7%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Jan Kalyan Party (JKP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.0% between them, down from 74.4% — 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
35,596
Margin
2,612
7.34%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SANATAN SARDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,34634.7%
- 2SALKHAN MURMUIndependent · IND9,73427.3%
- 3SANATAN MAJHIIndian National Congress · INC9,48226.6%
- 4MAHANDAR CHANDRA SARDARSUC · SUC2,9018.1%
- 5SUNARAM SARDARIndependent · IND6041.7%
- 6DHARMU CHARAN MURMUJKD · JKD4031.1%
- 7ANAND KUMAR HEMBRAMIndependent · IND1260.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–IND swing
- +11.7%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 34.7%
- IND share
- 4.4% → 27.3%
- Turnout
- — → —