Constituency
61. Powayan
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
UP-POWAYAN
INC 43.3%won by 10.8%BJP 32.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.5% to 43.3% of the vote here (+3.8%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 32.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.8% between them, down from 94.1% — 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
56,706
Margin
6,135
10.82%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1ROOP RAMIndian National Congress · INC24,55743.3%
- 2BADRI PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,42232.5%
- 3RAM SAHAIIndependent · IND4,5248.0%
- 4SURAJ PRASADJNPSC · JNPSC3,6876.5%
- 5BANKEY LALIndependent · IND1,6572.9%
- 6VISHNU LALIndependent · IND1,1842.1%
- 7RISHI DEVIndependent · IND8191.4%
- 8KANHAIYA LALIndependent · IND6351.1%
- 9KAMLESH CHANDRAIndependent · IND4740.8%
- 10SHANKAR LALIndependent · IND4260.8%
- 11BABU RAMJNPSR · JNPSR3210.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −28.7%
- INC share
- 39.5% → 43.3%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 32.5%
- Turnout
- — → —