Constituency
83. Arrah
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-ARRAH
JNPS 38.4%won by 2.2%JNP 36.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to JNPS (JNPS), which now leads by 2.2%.
- JNPS vote shareJNPS went from 0.0% to 38.4% of the vote here (+38.4%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 36.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.7% between them, down from 95.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 14.2% to 49.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,29,450
Turnout
49.7%
Valid votes
4,12,485
Margin
8,949
2.17%
Candidates
16 contested · winner JNPS- 1CHANDRADEO PRASAD VERMAJNPS · JNPS1,58,53338.4%
- 2IMAMUL HAI KHANJanata Party · JNP1,49,58436.3%
- 3BUDHDEO SINGHINCI · INCI74,65918.1%
- 4RAM SUBHAG SINGHIndependent · IND15,1833.7%
- 5RAMA KANT PANDEYIndependent · IND2,4350.6%
- 6RAJNITI PRASADIndependent · IND2,1130.5%
- 7GAURI SHANKAR TIWARIIndependent · IND1,8930.5%
- 8KISHORI RAMIndependent · IND1,5060.4%
- 9KRISHNA KUAMR PANDEYRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP1,3640.3%
- 10SHEO PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND1,3610.3%
- 11MAHESH SINGHIndependent · IND1,1290.3%
- 12VINDESH CHANDRA PANDEYIndependent · IND8260.2%
- 13VINOD DHARI SINGHIndependent · IND5200.1%
- 14RAM BABU SINGHIndependent · IND4750.1%
- 15RAM NAGINA RAMIndependent · IND4620.1%
- 16RAM CHANDRA SINGHIndependent · IND4420.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- JNPSflipped
- JNPS–JNP swing
- +2.2%
- JNPS share
- 0.0% → 38.4%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 36.3%
- Turnout
- 63.9% → 49.7%