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85. Sasaram

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-SASARAM

JNP 44.0%won by 13.3%INCI 30.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 13.3%.

  • JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 44.0% of the vote here (+44.0%).
  • New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 30.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.7% between them, down from 98.6% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 12.6% to 51.2%.

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

Electorate
7,51,039
Turnout
51.2%
Valid votes
3,84,770
Margin
51,170
13.30%

Candidates

8 contested · winner JNP
  1. 1JAGJIWAN RAMJanata Party · JNP1,69,20744.0%
  2. 2MAHABIR PASWANINCI · INCI1,18,03730.7%
  3. 3SHIVA NANDAN PASWANJNPS · JNPS80,51620.9%
  4. 4DAYA SHANKAR RAMIndependent · IND6,9281.8%
  5. 5RAM PRASAD DASIndependent · IND4,6401.2%
  6. 6LAKSHMAN RAMIndependent · IND2,4010.6%
  7. 7R. V. PASWANSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD1,5300.4%
  8. 8ATIRAJO DEVIIndependent · IND1,5110.4%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
BLD
Winner now
JNPflipped
JNP–INCI swing
+13.3%
JNP share
0.0% → 44.0%
INCI share
0.0% → 30.7%
Turnout
63.8% → 51.2%
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