1977 Indian general election in Bihar

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1977 Indian general election in Bihar
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  1971
1980 

54 seats to the Lok Sabha
 First partySecond party
 
Party Janata Party INC
Seats won520

This is a list of successful candidates from constituencies in Bihar in the 1977 general elections to the 5th Lok Sabha, the lower house of the parliament of India.

Contents

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National parties

  1. JP Janata Party
  2. CPI Communist Party of India
  3. CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  4. INC Indian National Congress

List of successful candidates

ConstituencyMemberParty affiliation
Araria (SC) Mahendra Narain Sardar Janata Party
Arrah Chandradeo Prasad Verma
Aurangabad Satyendra Narayan Sinha
Bagaha (SC) Jagannath Prasad Swatantra
Balia Ram Jeevan Singh
Banka Madhu Limaye
Barh Shyam Sundar Gupta
Begusarai Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
Bettiah Fazlur Rahman
Bhagalpur Ramjee Singh
Bikramganj Ram Awadhesh Singh
Buxar Ramanand Tiwary
Chatra Sukhdeo Prasad Verma
Darbhanga Surendra Jha 'Suman'
Dhanbad A. K. Roy Marxist Co-ordination Committee
Dumka (ST) Bateshwar Hembram Janata Party
Gaya (SC) Ishwar Chaudhary
Giridih Ramdas Singh
Gopalganj Dwarka Nath Tiwary
Hajipur (SC) Ram Vilas Paswan
Hazaribagh Basant Narain Singh
Jahanabad Hari Lal Prasad Sinha
Jamshedpur Rudra Pratap Sarangi
Jhanjharpur Dhanik Lal Mandal
Katihar Yuvraj
Khagaria Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav
Kishanganj Halimuddin Ahmed
Kodarma Rati Lal Prasad Verma
Lohardaga (ST) Laloo Oraon
Madhepura Bindhyeshwari Prasad Mandal
Madhubani Hukmadeo Narayan Yadav
Maharajganj Ram Deo Singh
Monghyr Shrikrishna Singh
Motihari Thakur Ramapati Singh
Muzaffarpur George Fernandes
Nalanda Birendra Prasad
Nawada (SC) Nathuni Ram
Palamau (SC) Ramdeni Ram
Patna Mahamaya Prasad Sinha
Purnea Lakhan Lal Kapoor
Rajmahal (ST) Anthony Murmu
Rosera (SC) Ram Sewak Hazari
Saharsa Vinayak Prasad Yadav
Samastipur Karpoori Thakur
Ajit Kumar Mehta
Sasaram (SC) Jagjivan Ram
Sheohar Thakur Girija Nandan Singh
Sitamarhi Shyam Sunder Das
Singhbhum Bagun Sumbrai Jharkhand Party
Siwan Mrityunjay Prasad Janata Party
Vaishali Digvijay Narain Singh

Results by Constituency

ConstituencyTurnoutWinnerRunner-upMargin
CandidatePartyVotes%CandidatePartyVotes%Votes%
1 Bagaha (SC) 46.51%Jagannath Prasad BLD 138,44350.43Bhola Raut INC 97,75535.6140,68814.82
2 Bettiah 50.38%Fazlur Rahman BLD 186,48658.74Kedar Pandey INC 90,15828.4096,32830.34
3 Motihari 55.63%Thakur Rampati Singh BLD 167,73246.71Bibhuti Mishra INC 93,77926.1173,95320.60
4 Gopalganj 63.11%Dwarikanath Tiwary BLD 294,46670.08Abdul Ghafoor INC 121,47428.91172,99241.17
5 Siwan 67.34%Mirtanjay Prasad Verma BLD 325,03074.87Mohamad Yusuf INC 93,95421.64231,07653.23
6 Maharajganj 65.70%Ram Deo Singh BLD 345,78177.96Daroga Prasad Roy INC 93,88321.17251,89856.79
7 Chapra 73.89%Lalu Prasad BLD 415,40985.97Ram Shekhar Prasad Singh INC 41,6098.61373,80077.36
8 Hajipur (SC) 77.07%Ram Vilas Paswan BLD 469,00789.30Baleshwar Ram INC 44,4628.47424,54580.83
9 Vaishali 76.10%Digvijoy Narain Singh BLD 435,75785.03Nawal Kishore Singh INC 70,26013.71365,49771.32
10 Muzaffarpur 75.95%George Fernandes BLD 396,68778.23Nitishwer Prasad Singh INC 62,47012.32334,21765.91
11 Sitamarhi 69.81%Shyam Sunder Das BLD 261,32152.49Nagendra Prasad Yadav INC 171,22734.3990,09418.10
12 Sheohar 62.18%Thakur Girjanandan Singh BLD 241,67256.31Hari Kishore Singh INC 174,64340.6967,02915.62
13 Madhubani 68.40%Hukmdeo Narain Yadav BLD 200,54342.86Bhogendra Jha CPI 143,42230.6557,12112.21
14 Jhanjharpur 74.71%Dhanik Lal Mandal BLD 305,55465.78Jagannath Mishra INC 148,07331.88157,48133.90
15 Darbhanga 66.42%Surendra Jha Suman BLD 306,85773.57Radhanandan Jha INC 94,85522.74212,00250.83
16 Rosera (SC) 69.07%Ram Sewak Hazari BLD 311,24070.70Ram Bhagat Paswan INC 116,73426.52194,50644.18
17 Samastipur 70.69%Karpoori Thakur BLD 401,93578.22Yamuna Prasad Mandal INC 74,50114.50327,43463.72
18 Barh 72.02%Shyam Sunder Gupta BLD 372,22775.94Dharamvir Singh INC 101,94520.80270,28255.14
19 Balia 59.92%Ramajiwan Singh BLD 146,77239.25Surya Narayan Singh CPI 99,14026.5147,63212.74
20 Saharsa 68.08%Vinayak Prasad Yadav BLD 306,99467.35Chiranjib Jha INC 118,28825.95188,70641.40
21 Madhepura 71.58%Bindhyeshwari Prasad Mandal BLD 301,07665.44Rajendra Prasad Yadav INC 100,35921.81200,71743.63
22 Araria (SC) 58.86%Mahendra Narayan Sardar BLD 221,82965.36Dumar Lal Baitha INC 113,29533.38108,53431.98
23 Kishanganj 48.91%Halimuddin Ahmed BLD 168,17558.58Jamilur Rahman INC 88,04530.6780,13027.91
24 Purnea 59.73%Lakhan Lal Kapoor BLD 199,03456.07Madhuri Singh (F) INC 106,99730.1492,03725.93
25 Katihar 60.17%Yuvraj BLD 215,07469.41Shah Mohammad Tarique 'Anwar' INC 85,28527.52129,78941.89
26 Rajmahal (ST) 39.95%Father Anthoni Murmu BLD 148,67768.15Yofesh Chandra Murmu INC 56,19125.7692,48642.39
27 Dumka (ST) 41.42%Bateshwar Hemram BLD 115,38649.45Prithiwichand Kisku INC 62,13226.6353,25422.82
28 Godda 57.91%Jagdambi Prasad Yadav BLD 250,74970.01Jagdish N. Mandal INC 91,75825.62158,99144.39
29 Banka 55.14%Limaye Madhu BLD 239,55071.14Chandra Shekhar Singh INC 78,86623.42160,68447.72
30 Bhagalpur 63.65%Dr. Ramji Singh BLD 304,79171.74Bhagalpur INC 120,07328.26184,71843.48
31 Khagaria 63.14%Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav BLD 230,68757.22Jai N. Mehta INC 81,39520.19149,29237.03
32 Monghyr 74.00%Shri Krishna Singh BLD 337,79166.15Devendra Prasad Yadav INC 164,17432.15173,61734.00
33 Begusarai 63.22%Shyam Nandan Mishra BLD 185,38244.48Tarkeshri Sinha (F) INC 150,15436.0335,2288.45
34 Nalanda 71.63%Birendra Prasad BLD 284,68454.06Vijay Kumar Yadav CPI 143,66227.28141,02226.78
35 Patna 68.02%Maha Maya Prasad Sinha BLD 382,36376.61Ramavatar Shastri CPI 59,23811.87323,12564.74
36 Arrah 65.00%Chandradeo Prasad Verma BLD 323,91370.67Baliram Bhagat INC 113,03624.66210,87746.01
37 Buxar 63.38%Rama Nand Tiwary BLD 286,41865.04Anant Prasad Sharma INC 82,70518.78203,71346.26
38 Sasaram (SC) 64.98%Jagjivan Ram BLD 327,99578.49Mungeri Lall INC 84,18520.15243,81058.34
39 Bikramganj 61.39%Ram Awadhesh Singh BLD 248,57859.57Ram Subhag Singh INC 96,82723.21151,75136.36
40 Aurangabad 61.44%Satyendra Narain Singh BLD 251,13961.76Ram Swaroop Yadav INC 130,69232.14120,44729.62
41 Jahanabad 66.44%Hari Lal Prasad Sinha BLD 317,95464.85Chandrika Prasad Yadav INC 66,98413.66250,97051.19
42 Nawada (SC) 69.87%Nathuni Ram BLD 429,78584.00Mahabir Chaudhary INC 67,08413.11362,70170.89
43 Gaya (SC) 69.29%Ishwar Chaudhry BLD 341,00077.60Mishri Sada INC 92,68221.09248,31856.51
44 Chatra 47.97%Sukdeo Prasad Verma BLD 203,87874.99Shankar Dayal Singh INC 60,34422.19143,53452.80
45 Kodarma 43.38%Ritlal Prasad Verma BLD 169,38767.34Chaplendu Bhattacharyyia INC 53,35921.21116,02846.13
46 Giridih 50.03%Ram Das Singh BLD 164,12058.35I. Ahmad INC 85,84330.5278,27727.83
47 Dhanbad 45.39%A. K. Roy IND 205,49568.74Ram Narain Sharma INC 63,64621.29141,84947.45
48 Hazaribagh 47.73%Kunwar Basant Narain Singh BLD 186,05864.67Damodar Pandey INC 44,94115.62141,11749.05
49 Ranchi 47.84%Ravindra Verma BLD 130,93849.02Sheo Prasad Sahu INC 68,22225.5462,71623.48
50 Jamshedpur 46.85%Rudra Pratap Sarangi BLD 131,41950.16V. G. Gopal INC 67,66625.8363,75324.33
51 Singhbhum (ST) 34.46%Bagun Sumbrui JKP 126,28873.31Moran Singh Purty INC 24,42214.18101,86659.13
52 Khunti (ST) 33.93%Karia Munda BLD 91,85949.99Nirel Mundu JKP 56,97631.0134,88318.98
53 Lohardaga (ST) 45.74%Lalu Oraon BLD 142,27456.93Kartik Oraon INC 77,39130.9764,88325.96
54 Palamau (SC) 45.80%Ramdeni Ram BLD 201,86177.56Kamla Kumari (F) INC 39,02214.99162,83962.57

References

  1. "Statistical report on general elections, 1971 to the fifth Lok Sabha" (PDF). Election Commission of India.