Constituency
88. Banka
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-BANKA
BLD 71.1%won by 47.7%INC 23.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to BLD (BLD), which now leads by 47.7%.
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 71.1% of the vote here (+71.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.6% of the vote between them, up from 55.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.9% to 53.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,24,645
Turnout
53.9%
Valid votes
3,36,709
Margin
1,60,684
47.72%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BLD- 1LIMAYE MADHUBLD · BLD2,39,55071.1%
- 2CHANDRA SHEKHAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC78,86623.4%
- 3RAMANAND SINGHIndependent · IND16,1854.8%
- 4SUSHIL KUMAR YADAVIndependent · IND2,1080.6%
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
- +77.5%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 71.1%
- INC share
- 29.8% → 23.4%
- Turnout
- 48.0% → 53.9%