Constituency
289. Generalganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
UP-GENERALGANJ
INC 49.9%won by 15.9%BJP 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.4% to 49.9% of the vote here (+14.5%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 34.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.9% between them, down from 94.3% — 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
45,340
Margin
7,223
15.93%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1SUMAN LATA DIXITIndian National Congress · INC22,62549.9%
- 2REOTI RAMAN RASTOGIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,40234.0%
- 3SAYED SHAHID HUSSAININCU · INCU2,8046.2%
- 4MAHADEO HINDUSTANIJNPSC · JNPSC2,4065.3%
- 5YUDHISTHIR TALWARCommunist Party of India · CPI1,3232.9%
- 6K. K. TEWARIJanata Party · JNP2510.6%
- 7DEVMANIndependent · IND1950.4%
- 8RAMADHAR TRIVEDIIndependent · IND940.2%
- 9MUHAMMAD USMANIndependent · IND900.2%
- 10SHESH NARAINIndependent · IND840.2%
- 11BABU RAM PANDEYIndependent · IND660.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −19.5%
- INC share
- 35.4% → 49.9%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → —