Constituency
94. Patna
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-PATNA
BLD 76.6%won by 64.7%CPI 11.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to BLD (BLD), which now leads by 64.7%.
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 76.6% of the vote here (+76.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.5% of the vote between them, up from 81.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.7% to 67.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,44,724
Turnout
67.0%
Valid votes
4,99,079
Margin
3,23,125
64.74%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BLD- 1MAHA MAYA PRASAD SINHABLD · BLD3,82,36376.6%
- 2RAMAVATAR SHASTRICommunist Party of India · CPI59,23811.9%
- 3RAJENDRA PRATAP SINHAIndian National Congress · INC41,1538.2%
- 4GANPAT RAIIndependent · IND7,8061.6%
- 5BHOLA NATH CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND2,1980.4%
- 6RAM RAJ DUBEY 'RAJESH'Independent · IND1,7150.3%
- 7VALDEO YADAVIndependent · IND1,3350.3%
- 8MANORAMA DEVISanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD1,2430.2%
- 9KRISHNA KUMAR RAZAKIndependent · IND1,0230.2%
- 10SACHIDANAND SAHAYIndependent · IND1,0050.2%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- BLDflipped
- BLD–CPI swing
- +115.5%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 76.6%
- CPI share
- 50.8% → 11.9%
- Turnout
- 56.4% → 67.0%