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101. Palamau

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-PALAMAU

INCI 48.3%won by 17.0%JNP 31.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 17.0%.

  • INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 48.3% of the vote here (+48.3%).
  • New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 31.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.6% between them, down from 92.6% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 5.3% to 39.7%.

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

Electorate
6,73,887
Turnout
39.7%
Valid votes
2,67,301
Margin
45,340
16.96%

Candidates

9 contested · winner INCI
  1. 1KAMLA KUMARIINCI · INCI1,29,01348.3%
  2. 2RAMDENI RAMJanata Party · JNP83,67331.3%
  3. 3HIRA RAM TOOFANIJNPS · JNPS23,8258.9%
  4. 4TAPESWAR MOCHIIndependent · IND11,3154.2%
  5. 5RAM REKHA RAMIndependent · IND4,5031.7%
  6. 6KANHAI RAMJKD · JKD4,3791.6%
  7. 7RAGHUNI RAMSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD4,3371.6%
  8. 8BHIKHAM MOCHIIndependent · IND4,0711.5%
  9. 9RAM LAGAN RAMIndependent · IND2,1850.8%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
BLD
Winner now
INCIflipped
INCI–JNP swing
+17.0%
INCI share
0.0% → 48.3%
JNP share
0.0% → 31.3%
Turnout
44.9% → 39.7%
100. Lohardaga102. Chandigarh
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