Constituency
70. Sitamarhi
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-SITAMARHI
BLD 52.5%won by 18.1%INC 34.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to BLD (BLD), which now leads by 18.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BLD vote shareBLD went from 0.0% to 52.5% of the vote here (+52.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.9% between them, down from 96.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.3% to 68.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,22,136
Turnout
68.9%
Valid votes
4,97,863
Margin
90,094
18.10%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BLD- 1SHYAM SUNDER DASBLD · BLD2,61,32152.5%
- 2NAGENDRA PRASAD YADAVIndian National Congress · INC1,71,22734.4%
- 3MUNIR ALAM KHANCommunist Party of India · CPI54,03010.9%
- 4RAM KISHORE PRASADIndependent · IND7,0751.4%
- 5INDAL SINGHIndependent · IND4,2100.8%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BLDflipped
- BLD–INC swing
- +69.7%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 52.5%
- INC share
- 51.6% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- 66.6% → 68.9%