Constituency
320. Garhwa
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-GARHWA
INC 34.1%won by 6.8%BJP 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 19.1% to 34.1% of the vote here (+15.0%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 27.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.4% between them, down from 89.0% — 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
47,327
Margin
3,201
6.76%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1YUGAL KISHORE PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC16,12234.1%
- 2GOPI NATH SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,92127.3%
- 3IMTIYAZ AHMAD KHANIndependent · IND7,66416.2%
- 4VIKRAMA PANDEYIndependent · IND4,5719.7%
- 5VINOD NARAYAN DIKSHITJNPSC · JNPSC2,0444.3%
- 6JAGARNATH SAOIndependent · IND1,1502.4%
- 7VIJAY KUMAR CHAUBEYJanata Party · JNP8171.7%
- 8BALMIKI CHOUBEYIndependent · IND7391.6%
- 9RAM PRATAP RAMIndependent · IND7161.5%
- 10SHIVA SHANKAR TIWARIIndependent · IND5831.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −12.3%
- INC share
- 19.1% → 34.1%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 27.3%
- Turnout
- — → —