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78. Khagaria

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-KHAGARIA

INCI 41.0%won by 12.9%JNPS 28.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 12.9%.

  • INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 41.0% of the vote here (+41.0%).
  • New challengerJNPS (JNPS) finished second with 28.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.0% between them, down from 77.4% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 58.2%.

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

Electorate
7,13,675
Turnout
58.2%
Valid votes
4,15,633
Margin
53,769
12.94%

Candidates

8 contested · winner INCI
  1. 1SATISH PD. SINGHINCI · INCI1,70,26441.0%
  2. 2SUMITRA DEVIJNPS · JNPS1,16,49528.0%
  3. 3PRABHU NARAYAN ROYCommunist Party of India · CPI68,60916.5%
  4. 4GYANESHHWAR PRASAD YADAVJanata Party · JNP45,94211.1%
  5. 5ASHOK SINGHIndependent · IND5,2661.3%
  6. 6VISHNUDEO VIDROHIIndependent · IND5,1771.2%
  7. 7KRIT NARAYAN PYARAIndependent · IND2,4970.6%
  8. 8SUMITRA DEVI PACHAUTIndependent · IND1,3830.3%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
BLD
Winner now
INCIflipped
INCI–JNPS swing
+12.9%
INCI share
0.0% → 41.0%
JNPS share
0.0% → 28.0%
Turnout
61.7% → 58.2%
77. Bhagalpur79. Monger
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