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61. Jhanjharpur

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-JHANJHARPUR

JNPS 44.5%won by 10.0%INCI 34.5%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to JNPS (JNPS), which now leads by 10.0%.

  • JNPS vote shareJNPS went from 0.0% to 44.5% of the vote here (+44.5%).
  • New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 34.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.0% between them, down from 97.7% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 8.7% to 65.0%.

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

Electorate
7,00,394
Turnout
65.0%
Valid votes
4,55,571
Margin
45,483
9.98%

Candidates

10 contested · winner JNPS
  1. 1DHANIK LAL MANDALJNPS · JNPS2,02,71044.5%
  2. 2JAGANNATH MISHRAINCI · INCI1,57,22734.5%
  3. 3KAMESHWARI DEVIJanata Party · JNP84,13518.5%
  4. 4GANGADHAR MANDALIndependent · IND3,5240.8%
  5. 5RAS LAL YADAVIndependent · IND1,9640.4%
  6. 6LEKHA NAND JHAIndependent · IND1,7180.4%
  7. 7HARE RAM SINGHIndependent · IND1,6160.4%
  8. 8RAM VILASH SAHANIIndependent · IND1,0600.2%
  9. 9SHAFIQULLAIndependent · IND9870.2%
  10. 10BRAJNANDANIndependent · IND6300.1%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
BLD
Winner now
JNPSflipped
JNPS–INCI swing
+10.0%
JNPS share
0.0% → 44.5%
INCI share
0.0% → 34.5%
Turnout
73.8% → 65.0%
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