Constituency
166. Captainganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
UP-CAPTAINGANJ
INC 34.3%won by 9.6%JNPSC 24.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.8% to 34.3% of the vote here (+4.5%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 24.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.0% between them, down from 83.8% — 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
67,340
Margin
6,479
9.62%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1AMBIKA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC23,09134.3%
- 2SATAYA RAMJNPSC · JNPSC16,61224.7%
- 3OM PRAKASH ALIAS RAM MILAN SINGHJanata Party · JNP7,15410.6%
- 4TEJ BAHADURCommunist Party of India · CPI4,8457.2%
- 5RAM PRASADIndependent · IND4,0656.0%
- 6JAGDISH PRASAD MISRAJNPSR · JNPSR3,5385.3%
- 7RAM MURATI TRIPATHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,3623.5%
- 8RAM GARIBIndependent · IND2,1583.2%
- 9RAM RANGINCU · INCU1,7082.5%
- 10RAJI ALIAS RAJA RAMAIndependent · IND7921.2%
- 11RAM LAKHANIndependent · IND5190.8%
- 12ADYA SARANIndependent · IND4960.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −20.2%
- INC share
- 29.8% → 34.3%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 24.7%
- Turnout
- — → —