Constituency
94. Dhanbad
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-DHANBAD
IND 34.2%won by 3.8%INCI 30.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 47.4% to 3.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 34.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 30.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.6% between them, down from 90.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.7% to 48.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,29,241
Turnout
48.0%
Valid votes
3,98,003
Margin
15,306
3.85%
Candidates
20 contested · winner IND- 1A. K. ROYIndependent · IND1,36,28034.2%
- 2YOGESHWAR PRASAD 'YOGESH'INCI · INCI1,20,97430.4%
- 3NARENDRA KUMAR SINGHJanata Party · JNP78,08119.6%
- 4AHMAD KUMAR ANSARIJNPS · JNPS27,6056.9%
- 5AKLU RAM MAHATOIndependent · IND10,9312.7%
- 6KEDAR PRASAD SAOIndependent · IND4,2631.1%
- 7HARADHAN SINGHIndependent · IND2,7970.7%
- 8S. P. ROYINCU · INCU2,6810.7%
- 9SURAJDEO NA. YADAVIndependent · IND1,9920.5%
- 10GENORI PASWANIndependent · IND1,6400.4%
- 11NARAYAN MAHATOJKD · JKD1,5830.4%
- 12DEWAN MANJHIIndependent · IND1,5720.4%
- 13P. K. ROYIndependent · IND1,4750.4%
- 14SUDHANSU MAHTHAIndependent · IND1,4440.4%
- 15AJIT SINGHIndependent · IND9410.2%
- 16ANUKUL KUMAR BOSEIndependent · IND9290.2%
- 17LAL MOHAN MUKHIIndependent · IND8810.2%
- 18S. N.PRASADIndependent · IND7690.2%
- 19SATYANDRA KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND6430.2%
- 20BUDHAN RAMIndependent · IND5220.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INCI swing
- −64.9%
- IND share
- 68.7% → 34.2%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- 44.3% → 48.0%