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69. Araria

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-ARARIA

INCI 49.3%won by 16.4%JNPS 32.9%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 16.4%.

  • INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 49.3% of the vote here (+49.3%).
  • New challengerJNPS (JNPS) finished second with 32.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.3% between them, down from 98.7% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 2.8% to 54.6%.

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

Electorate
7,02,757
Turnout
54.6%
Valid votes
3,83,911
Margin
62,824
16.36%

Candidates

7 contested · winner INCI
  1. 1DUMAR LAL BAITHAINCI · INCI1,89,30949.3%
  2. 2NAWAL KISHORE BHARTIJNPS · JNPS1,26,48532.9%
  3. 3MAHENDRA NARAYAN SARDARJanata Party · JNP58,39015.2%
  4. 4HARILAL RAMIndependent · IND3,4490.9%
  5. 5LAKSHMI N. RAMIndependent · IND3,0850.8%
  6. 6ANUPLAL PASWANIndependent · IND2,5210.7%
  7. 7ADHIK LAL SADAIndependent · IND6720.2%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
BLD
Winner now
INCIflipped
INCI–JNPS swing
+16.4%
INCI share
0.0% → 49.3%
JNPS share
0.0% → 32.9%
Turnout
57.5% → 54.6%
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