Constituency
83. Purnea
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-PURNEA
BLD 56.1%won by 25.9%INC 30.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to BLD (BLD), which now leads by 25.9%.
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 56.1% of the vote here (+56.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.2% of the vote between them, up from 45.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 20.9% to 58.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,10,087
Turnout
58.2%
Valid votes
3,55,000
Margin
92,037
25.93%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BLD- 1LAKHAN LAL KAPOORBLD · BLD1,99,03456.1%
- 2MADHURI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC1,06,99730.1%
- 3AMIRUL HASANCommunist Party of India · CPI23,4816.6%
- 4AZAMIndependent · IND16,0584.5%
- 5UMESH KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND4,0891.2%
- 6BRAHMANAND TRIVEDIIndependent · IND2,3780.7%
- 7BALDEO PRASAD ORAONIndependent · IND1,9350.5%
- 8ABDUL MUJIB SEKHMUL · MUL1,0280.3%
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
- +53.7%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 56.1%
- INC share
- 27.7% → 30.1%
- Turnout
- 37.3% → 58.2%