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Bihar Lok Sabha 1977

Results board · 54 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha
StateBihar
Seats
54
Constituencies
Majority
28
Seats needed of 54
Electors
3.50Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
2.09Cr
59.6% of electors
Median turnout
61.8%
Median of 54 seats
BLD lead
+24
Above majority · 52 − 28

[01]Seat matrix

54 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won
Hemicycle of 54 seats: BLD 52, IND 1, JP 1. Majority line at 28 seats. Hemicycle of 54 seats: BLD 52, IND 1, JP 1. Majority line at 28 seats.
Majority · 28 of 54BLD 52 · +24 above majority
BLD 5296.3% Bharatiya Lok Dal
IND 11.9% Independents
JP 11.9% Jharkhand Party

[02]Vote share

Not in the source

The source carries no state-level vote share for Bihar 1977.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. Khunti was decided by 34,883 votes, the closest of 54 seats; Hajipur had the widest margin, 4,24,545.

    min / max of margin over 54 seats with a recorded margin

  2. In SC-reserved seats BLD won 8 of 8 (100.0%), against 96.3% of all seats.

    8 ÷ 8 = 100.0% · 52 ÷ 54 = 96.3%

  3. Turnout ran from 32.8% in Khunti to 76.5% in Hajipur; the median seat polled 61.8%.

    min / median / max over 54 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

54 of 54 seats carry a turnout
025507510061.8%MEDIAN SEAT
< 50% 1629.6% of seats
50–60 713.0% of seats
60–70 2240.7% of seats
70–80 916.7% of seats
≥ 80% 00.0% of seats
  • LowestKhunti32.8%
  • HighestHajipur76.5%
  • NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

54 rows · by constituency number
Constituency results, Bihar Lok Sabha 1977, all 54 seats
# Constituency Winner Party Votes polled Margin Margin % Turnout %
01 BagahaSC Jagannath Prasad Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,74,525 40,688 14.8 45.6
02 Bettiah Fazlur Rahman Bharatiya Lok Dal 3,17,498 96,328 30.3 49.5
03 Motihari Thakur Rampati Singh Bharatiya Lok Dal 3,59,129 73,953 20.6 54.5
04 Gopalganj Dwarikanath Tiwary Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,20,162 1,72,992 41.2 62.3
05 Siwan Mirtanjay Prasad Verma Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,34,118 2,31,076 53.2 66.4
06 Maharajganj Ram Deo Singh Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,43,550 2,51,898 56.8 65.0
07 Chapra Lalu Prasad Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,83,198 3,73,800 77.4 73.3
08 HajipurSCWIDEST Ram Vilas Paswan Bharatiya Lok Dal 5,25,179 4,24,545 80.8 76.5
09 Vaishali Digvijoy Narain Singh Bharatiya Lok Dal 5,12,490 3,65,497 71.3 75.6
10 Muzaffarpur George Fernandes Bharatiya Lok Dal 5,07,064 3,34,217 65.9 75.1
11 Sitamarhi Shyam Sunder Das Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,97,863 90,094 18.1 68.9
12 Sheohar Thakur Girjanandan Singh Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,29,219 67,029 15.6 61.3
13 Madhubani Hukmdeo Narain Yadav Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,67,923 57,121 12.2 67.4
14 Jhanjharpur Dhanik Lal Mandal Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,64,530 1,57,481 33.9 73.8
15 Darbhanga Surendra Jha Suman Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,17,082 2,12,002 50.8 65.6
16 RoseraSC Ram Sewak Hazari Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,40,217 1,94,506 44.2 68.2
17 Samastipur Karpoori Thakur Bharatiya Lok Dal 5,13,878 3,27,434 63.7 69.8
18 Barh Shyam Sunder Gupta Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,90,128 2,70,282 55.2 70.9
19 Balia Ramajiwan Singh Bharatiya Lok Dal 3,73,968 47,632 12.7 58.5
20 Saharsa Vinayak Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,55,799 1,88,706 41.4 66.9
21 Madhepura Bindhyeshwari Prasad Mandal Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,60,054 2,00,717 43.6 70.2
22 ArariaSC Mahendra Narayan Sardar Bharatiya Lok Dal 3,39,393 1,08,534 32.0 57.5
23 Kishanganj Halimuddin Ahmed Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,87,084 80,130 27.9 47.9
24 Purnea Lakhan Lal Kapoor Bharatiya Lok Dal 3,55,000 92,037 25.9 58.2
25 Katihar Yuvraj Bharatiya Lok Dal 3,09,850 1,29,789 41.9 58.7
26 RajmahalST Father Anthoni Murmu Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,18,155 92,486 42.4 38.9
27 DumkaST Bateshwar Hemram Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,33,333 53,254 22.8 40.3
28 Godda Jagdambi Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Lok Dal 3,58,156 1,58,991 44.4 56.8
29 Banka Limaye Madhu Bharatiya Lok Dal 3,36,709 1,60,684 47.7 53.9
30 Bhagalpur Dr. Ramji Singh Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,24,864 1,84,718 43.5 62.2
31 Khagaria Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,03,191 1,49,292 37.0 61.7
32 Monghyr Shri Krishna Singh Bharatiya Lok Dal 5,10,633 1,73,617 34.0 73.0
33 Begusarai Shyam Nandan Mishra Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,16,742 35,228 8.5 61.8
34 Nalanda Birendra Prasad Bharatiya Lok Dal 5,26,650 1,41,022 26.8 70.3
35 Patna Maha Maya Prasad Sinha Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,99,079 3,23,125 64.7 67.0
36 Arrah Chandradeo Prasad Verma Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,58,340 2,10,877 46.0 63.9
37 Buxar Rama Nand Tiwary Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,40,350 2,03,713 46.3 62.5
38 SasaramSC Jagivan Ram Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,17,876 2,43,810 58.4 63.8
39 Bikramganj Ram Awadhesh Singh Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,17,263 1,51,751 36.4 60.2
40 Aurangabad Satyendra Narain Singh Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,06,645 1,20,447 29.6 60.2
41 Jahanabad Hari Lal Prasad Sinha Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,90,262 2,50,970 51.2 65.2
42 NawadaSC Nathuni Ram Bharatiya Lok Dal 5,11,649 3,62,701 70.9 69.0
43 GayaSC Ishwar Chaudhry Bharatiya Lok Dal 4,39,454 2,48,318 56.5 68.4
44 Chatra Sukdeo Prasad Verma Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,71,889 1,43,534 52.8 46.8
45 Kodarma Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,51,535 1,16,028 46.1 41.7
46 Giridih Ram Das Singh Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,81,266 78,277 27.8 48.4
47 Dhanbad A. K. Roy Independent 2,98,960 1,41,849 47.5 44.3
48 Hazaribagh Kunwar Basant Narain Singh Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,87,693 1,41,117 49.1 46.5
49 Ranchi Ravindra Verma Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,67,092 62,716 23.5 46.2
50 Jamshedpur Rudra Pratap Sarangi Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,62,006 63,753 24.3 45.5
51 SinghbhumST Bagun Sumbrui Jharkhand Party 1,72,270 1,01,866 59.1 32.9
52 KhuntiSTCLOSEST Karia Munda Bharatiya Lok Dal 1,83,763 34,883 19.0 32.8
53 LohardagaST Lalu Oraon Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,49,920 64,883 26.0 44.2
54 PalamauSC Ramdeni Ram Bharatiya Lok Dal 2,60,260 1,62,839 62.6 44.9
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 4,24,545 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1977 · Bihar · 54 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesThe source has no state-level summary for this election

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