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96. Ranchi

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-RANCHI

INCI 38.7%won by 13.8%JNP 24.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 13.8%.

  • INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 38.7% of the vote here (+38.7%).
  • New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 24.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.5% between them, down from 74.6% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 6.6% to 39.7%.

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

Electorate
6,94,669
Turnout
39.7%
Valid votes
2,75,488
Margin
38,126
13.84%

Candidates

17 contested · winner INCI
  1. 1SHIVA PRASAD SAHUINCI · INCI1,06,50638.7%
  2. 2SHIVA KUMAR SINHAJanata Party · JNP68,38024.8%
  3. 3BHOLA PRASAD SINGHJNPS · JNPS26,6799.7%
  4. 4GHANSHYAM MAHTOFBL · FBL26,0259.4%
  5. 5RAM TAHAL CHOUDHRYIndependent · IND24,3988.9%
  6. 6DAVID BHANJAJKD · JKD6,4802.4%
  7. 7BASANT LALIndependent · IND6,1342.2%
  8. 8R. N. SAMAIYARIndependent · IND2,3440.9%
  9. 9SHIVA PRASAD MEHTAIndependent · IND1,7840.6%
  10. 10MANOHAR MAHTOIndependent · IND1,6130.6%
  11. 11RAM KARAN PALINCU · INCU1,2730.5%
  12. 12ABDUL RAUFIndependent · IND1,1030.4%
  13. 13SHIVA PRASAD RAMIndependent · IND7750.3%
  14. 14RAMESHWAR PRASAD CHOWDHERYIndependent · IND5980.2%
  15. 15MD. ABRARUL HODAIndependent · IND5910.2%
  16. 16RAM GOPAL CHITLANGIYANIndependent · IND4530.2%
  17. 17AHMED AZADIndependent · IND3520.1%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
BLD
Winner now
INCIflipped
INCI–JNP swing
+13.8%
INCI share
0.0% → 38.7%
JNP share
0.0% → 24.8%
Turnout
46.2% → 39.7%
95. Hazaribagh97. Jamshedpur
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