Constituency
57. Muzaffarpur
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-MUZAFFARPUR
JNPS 43.2%won by 5.1%JNP 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to JNPS (JNPS), which now leads by 5.1%.
- JNPS vote shareJNPS went from 0.0% to 43.2% of the vote here (+43.2%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 38.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.2% between them, down from 90.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 15.6% to 59.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,61,283
Turnout
59.5%
Valid votes
4,52,946
Margin
23,109
5.10%
Candidates
18 contested · winner JNPS- 1GEORGE FARNANDESJNPS · JNPS1,95,51043.2%
- 2DIGVIJAY NARAIN SINGHJanata Party · JNP1,72,40138.1%
- 3RAJNI RANJAN PRASAD SAHINCI · INCI66,74414.7%
- 4DAROGA PRASADIndependent · IND6,3751.4%
- 5BHOLA CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND2,6660.6%
- 6BACHHULAL AZADIndependent · IND2,1750.5%
- 7RAM LAL MISHRAIndependent · IND1,5280.3%
- 8JITENDRA PRASAD HARSHIndependent · IND1,0210.2%
- 9TAPESHWAR RAIIndependent · IND8840.2%
- 10MOHD. ISRAELIndependent · IND6490.1%
- 11GANGA PRASAD SAHNIIndependent · IND6430.1%
- 12LAKHAN MAHTOIndependent · IND5130.1%
- 13MATHURA PRASADIndependent · IND4840.1%
- 14RAHIM KHANIndependent · IND4310.1%
- 15RAJENDRA SAHNIIndependent · IND3540.1%
- 16VINDA SINGHIndependent · IND2370.1%
- 17SUBODH KUMAR SAHUIndependent · IND1990.0%
- 18SHIV SHANKAR RAJAKIndependent · IND1320.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- JNPSflipped
- JNPS–JNP swing
- +5.1%
- JNPS share
- 0.0% → 43.2%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- 75.1% → 59.5%