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77. Bhagalpur

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-BHAGALPUR

INCI 42.3%won by 18.4%JNPS 23.9%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 18.4%.

  • INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 42.3% of the vote here (+42.3%).
  • New challengerJNPS (JNPS) finished second with 23.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.1% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 8.4% to 53.8%.

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

Electorate
7,74,045
Turnout
53.8%
Valid votes
4,16,266
Margin
76,685
18.42%

Candidates

10 contested · winner INCI
  1. 1BHAGWAT JHA AZADINCI · INCI1,75,99542.3%
  2. 2JAGESHWAR MANDALJNPS · JNPS99,31023.9%
  3. 3RAMJEE SINGHJanata Party · JNP61,55114.8%
  4. 4RAMESHWAR LAL TIWARICommunist Party of India · CPI48,11911.6%
  5. 5NEJAM UDDINIndependent · IND16,7714.0%
  6. 6UPENDRA YADAVIndependent · IND6,3161.5%
  7. 7MAHENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND2,3980.6%
  8. 8DIWKAR JHAIndependent · IND2,2770.5%
  9. 9UDISH PD. RAMIndependent · IND2,1240.5%
  10. 10ABDUL RAHMANIndependent · IND1,4050.3%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
BLD
Winner now
INCIflipped
INCI–JNPS swing
+18.4%
INCI share
0.0% → 42.3%
JNPS share
0.0% → 23.9%
Turnout
62.2% → 53.8%
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