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219. Chaurai

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Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980

MP-CHAURAI

INC 61.4%won by 44.9%CPI 16.5%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.9% to 44.9%.

  • New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 16.5% — it polled just 1.7% in 1977.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.9% of the vote between them, up from 68.8% — a tighter two-way contest.

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
21,081
Margin
9,462
44.88%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1VAIJNATH PRASAD SAXENAIndian National Congress · INC12,94461.4%
  2. 2KURAKSINGH HARNAM LODHICommunist Party of India · CPI3,48216.5%
  3. 3RAMNATH SINGH PHULARAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,71212.9%
  4. 4LAXMINARAYAN JAGANNATHIndependent · IND1,4687.0%
  5. 5SHANKAR BABOO LALIndependent · IND4752.3%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPI swing
+7.8%
INC share
38.8% → 61.4%
CPI share
1.7% → 16.5%
Turnout
— → —
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