Election
Constituency

9. Pithoragarh

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980

UP-PITHORAGARH

INC 44.0%won by 17.6%JNP 26.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 17.6%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 31.9% to 44.0% of the vote here (+12.1%).
  • 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
30,630
Margin
5,403
17.64%

Candidates

6 contested · winner INC
  1. 1NARENDRA SINGH BISTIndian National Congress · INC13,47744.0%
  2. 2KAMAL KISHAN PANDEJanata Party · JNP8,07426.4%
  3. 3HIRA SINGH BORAIndependent · IND5,45117.8%
  4. 4MADHAVA NAND JOSHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,1587.0%
  5. 5LAXMI PRASADIndependent · IND7402.4%
  6. 6HARI RAM ARYAIndependent · IND7302.4%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
JNP
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–JNP swing
+25.9%
INC share
31.9% → 44.0%
JNP share
40.1% → 26.4%
Turnout
— → —
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