Constituency
321. Bhawanathpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1980
BR-BHAWANATHPUR
INC 62.5%won by 39.4%JNPSC 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 39.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.1% to 62.5% of the vote here (+29.5%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 23.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.6% of the vote between them, up from 69.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
56,365
Margin
22,233
39.44%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SHANKAR PRATAP DEOIndian National Congress · INC35,23862.5%
- 2RAM CHANDRA PRASAD KOSHJNPSC · JNPSC13,00523.1%
- 3GIRIVAR PANDEYJanata Party · JNP4,7068.3%
- 4KEDAR NATH CHAUBEYIndependent · IND1,4262.5%
- 5PRADIP KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,2652.2%
- 6GANESH PRASAD VISHWAKARMIndependent · IND7251.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- +6.4%
- INC share
- 33.1% → 62.5%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- — → —