Constituency
256. Shahganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
UP-SHAHGANJ
INC 51.5%won by 24.2%JNPSC 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 24.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.5% to 51.5% of the vote here (+16.0%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 27.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.8% between them, down from 90.4% — 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
57,289
Margin
13,851
24.18%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1PAHLWANIndian National Congress · INC29,49851.5%
- 2DEEP CHAND SONKARJNPSC · JNPSC15,64727.3%
- 3RAM PALATCommunist Party of India · CPI5,1088.9%
- 4SHYAM LALJNPSR · JNPSR1,8523.2%
- 5DAYA PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,8263.2%
- 6HARI LALIndependent · IND1,7243.0%
- 7RAM ASREYIndependent · IND1,4322.5%
- 8CHHOTE LALIndependent · IND2020.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −11.4%
- INC share
- 35.5% → 51.5%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 27.3%
- Turnout
- — → —