Constituency
77. Barh
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-BARH
BLD 75.9%won by 55.1%INC 20.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to BLD (BLD), which now leads by 55.1%.
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 75.9% of the vote here (+75.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 88.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.5% to 70.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,91,495
Turnout
70.9%
Valid votes
4,90,128
Margin
2,70,282
55.15%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BLD- 1SHYAM SUNDER GUPTABLD · BLD3,72,22775.9%
- 2DHARAMVIR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC1,01,94520.8%
- 3BISHNUDHARI LALIndependent · IND4,6971.0%
- 4RAM SHARAN PRASAD ALIAS BHOLA PRASADIndependent · IND3,7520.8%
- 5LAKSHMI NARAYAN PRASADIndependent · IND1,8950.4%
- 6SHANKUTLA DEVI MATHURIndependent · IND1,8950.4%
- 7RAMCHANDRA PRASADIndependent · IND1,2690.3%
- 8RAMCHANDRA YADAVIndependent · IND7460.2%
- 9DEVENDRA KUMAR YADAVIndependent · IND6600.1%
- 10MUKTESHWAR PRASADIndependent · IND5810.1%
- 11CHANDRA KANT KUMARIndependent · IND4610.1%
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
- +103.2%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 75.9%
- INC share
- 48.1% → 20.8%
- Turnout
- 60.4% → 70.9%