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49. Bettiah

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-BETTIAH

INCI 54.5%won by 33.2%JNPS 21.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 33.2%.

  • INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 54.5% of the vote here (+54.5%).
  • New challengerJNPS (JNPS) finished second with 21.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.8% between them, down from 87.1% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 4.9% to 44.6%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
7,07,334
Turnout
44.6%
Valid votes
3,15,743
Margin
1,04,725
33.17%

Candidates

7 contested · winner INCI
  1. 1KEDAR PANDEYINCI · INCI1,72,01954.5%
  2. 2FAZLUR RAHMANJNPS · JNPS67,29421.3%
  3. 3NASIM AHMEDJanata Party · JNP62,24219.7%
  4. 4DEO NARAIN PRASADIndependent · IND4,2221.3%
  5. 5MAYA DEVIIndependent · IND4,0781.3%
  6. 6VISWA NATH SAHNIIndependent · IND3,8841.2%
  7. 7CHEDI KHANIndependent · IND2,0040.6%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
BLD
Winner now
INCIflipped
INCI–JNPS swing
+33.2%
INCI share
0.0% → 54.5%
JNPS share
0.0% → 21.3%
Turnout
49.5% → 44.6%
48. Bagaha50. Motihari
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