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324. Hussainabad

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1980

BR-HUSSAINABAD

INC 50.1%won by 35.0%CPI 15.1%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.3% to 35.0%.

  • New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 15.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
50,894
Margin
17,798
34.97%

Candidates

9 contested · winner INC
  1. 1HARIHAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC25,48850.1%
  2. 2BRAJ NANDAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI7,69015.1%
  3. 3RAM BILAS MAHTAJNPSC · JNPSC7,25614.3%
  4. 4DASRATH KUMAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,93111.7%
  5. 5SIDHESHWAR PRASAD SINGHJanata Party · JNP1,4942.9%
  6. 6DWARIKA PRASADSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD9711.9%
  7. 7ZAFRUDDINIndependent · IND7971.6%
  8. 8SARYU SINGHINCU · INCU7861.5%
  9. 9AWADHESH SINGHJNPSR · JNPSR4810.9%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPI swing
−1.2%
INC share
36.1% → 50.1%
CPI share
0.0% → 15.1%
Turnout
— → —
323. Chhatarpur
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