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86. Jahanabad

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984

IN-JAHANABAD

CPI 50.7%won by 4.2%INC 46.5%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: INCI (INCI) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 4.2%.

  • CPI vote shareCPI went from 36.2% to 50.7% of the vote here (+14.5%).
  • New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 46.5% — it did not contest here in 1980.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.2% of the vote between them, up from 77.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout rose 13.8% to 79.1%.

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

Electorate
9,39,919
Turnout
79.1%
Valid votes
7,43,232
Margin
30,976
4.17%

Candidates

17 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1RAMASHARAY PD. SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI3,76,64050.7%
  2. 2MAHENDRA PRASADIndian National Congress · INC3,45,66446.5%
  3. 3VIVEKA NAND SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,8651.1%
  4. 4JAI RAM PRASADIndependent · IND4,9910.7%
  5. 5RAMA NAND PRASADIndependent · IND1,4060.2%
  6. 6MAHENDER SINGHIndependent · IND1,1080.1%
  7. 7MD. YUSUF AZADIndependent · IND1,0220.1%
  8. 8PANNA LAL RAIIndependent · IND9530.1%
  9. 9BIRENDRA KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND6700.1%
  10. 10AJAI KUMARIndependent · IND5230.1%
  11. 11RAM RATAN CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND4420.1%
  12. 12JAI NANDAN SHARMAIndependent · IND4390.1%
  13. 13SATYA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND4210.1%
  14. 14RAM JATAN PRASADIndependent · IND4170.1%
  15. 15SARYU NAND PRASADIndependent · IND2490.0%
  16. 16GUPTESHWAR SHARMAIndependent · IND2130.0%
  17. 17AZIZIndependent · IND2090.0%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INCI
Winner now
CPIflipped
CPI–INC swing
−32.0%
CPI share
36.2% → 50.7%
INC share
0.0% → 46.5%
Turnout
65.3% → 79.1%
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