Constituency
308. Kanke
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-KANKE
INC 35.5%won by 2.1%CPI 33.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.7% to 35.5% of the vote here (+6.8%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 33.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.0% between them, down from 90.8% — 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
39,368
Margin
813
2.07%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1RAM RATAN RAMIndian National Congress · INC13,98635.5%
- 2B. D. RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI13,17333.5%
- 3RAM CHANDRA NAYAKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,85322.5%
- 4HIRA RAM TUFANIJNPSC · JNPSC1,8324.7%
- 5KISUN NAYAKINCU · INCU6481.6%
- 6VIBHUTI RAM AZADJanata Party · JNP4771.2%
- 7RAM KHILAWAN PASWANIndependent · IND3991.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −26.6%
- INC share
- 28.7% → 35.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 33.5%
- Turnout
- — → —