1977 Indian general election in Bihar

1977 Indian general election in Bihar


54 seats to the Lok Sabha
  First party Second party
 
Party Janata Party INC
Seats won 52 0

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.

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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

Constituency Member Party 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

Constituency Turnout Winner Runner-up Margin
Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes % Votes %
1 Bagaha (SC) 46.51% Jagannath Prasad BLD 138,443 50.43 Bhola Raut INC 97,755 35.61 40,688 14.82
2 Bettiah 50.38% Fazlur Rahman BLD 186,486 58.74 Kedar Pandey INC 90,158 28.40 96,328 30.34
3 Motihari 55.63% Thakur Rampati Singh BLD 167,732 46.71 Bibhuti Mishra INC 93,779 26.11 73,953 20.60
4 Gopalganj 63.11% Dwarikanath Tiwary BLD 294,466 70.08 Abdul Ghafoor INC 121,474 28.91 172,992 41.17
5 Siwan 67.34% Mirtanjay Prasad Verma BLD 325,030 74.87 Mohamad Yusuf INC 93,954 21.64 231,076 53.23
6 Maharajganj 65.70% Ram Deo Singh BLD 345,781 77.96 Daroga Prasad Roy INC 93,883 21.17 251,898 56.79
7 Chapra 73.89% Lalu Prasad BLD 415,409 85.97 Ram Shekhar Prasad Singh INC 41,609 8.61 373,800 77.36
8 Hajipur (SC) 77.07% Ram Vilas Paswan BLD 469,007 89.30 Baleshwar Ram INC 44,462 8.47 424,545 80.83
9 Vaishali 76.10% Digvijoy Narain Singh BLD 435,757 85.03 Nawal Kishore Singh INC 70,260 13.71 365,497 71.32
10 Muzaffarpur 75.95% George Fernandes BLD 396,687 78.23 Nitishwer Prasad Singh INC 62,470 12.32 334,217 65.91
11 Sitamarhi 69.81% Shyam Sunder Das BLD 261,321 52.49 Nagendra Prasad Yadav INC 171,227 34.39 90,094 18.10
12 Sheohar 62.18% Thakur Girjanandan Singh BLD 241,672 56.31 Hari Kishore Singh INC 174,643 40.69 67,029 15.62
13 Madhubani 68.40% Hukmdeo Narain Yadav BLD 200,543 42.86 Bhogendra Jha CPI 143,422 30.65 57,121 12.21
14 Jhanjharpur 74.71% Dhanik Lal Mandal BLD 305,554 65.78 Jagannath Mishra INC 148,073 31.88 157,481 33.90
15 Darbhanga 66.42% Surendra Jha Suman BLD 306,857 73.57 Radhanandan Jha INC 94,855 22.74 212,002 50.83
16 Rosera (SC) 69.07% Ram Sewak Hazari BLD 311,240 70.70 Ram Bhagat Paswan INC 116,734 26.52 194,506 44.18
17 Samastipur 70.69% Karpoori Thakur BLD 401,935 78.22 Yamuna Prasad Mandal INC 74,501 14.50 327,434 63.72
18 Barh 72.02% Shyam Sunder Gupta BLD 372,227 75.94 Dharamvir Singh INC 101,945 20.80 270,282 55.14
19 Balia 59.92% Ramajiwan Singh BLD 146,772 39.25 Surya Narayan Singh CPI 99,140 26.51 47,632 12.74
20 Saharsa 68.08% Vinayak Prasad Yadav BLD 306,994 67.35 Chiranjib Jha INC 118,288 25.95 188,706 41.40
21 Madhepura 71.58% Bindhyeshwari Prasad Mandal BLD 301,076 65.44 Rajendra Prasad Yadav INC 100,359 21.81 200,717 43.63
22 Araria (SC) 58.86% Mahendra Narayan Sardar BLD 221,829 65.36 Dumar Lal Baitha INC 113,295 33.38 108,534 31.98
23 Kishanganj 48.91% Halimuddin Ahmed BLD 168,175 58.58 Jamilur Rahman INC 88,045 30.67 80,130 27.91
24 Purnea 59.73% Lakhan Lal Kapoor BLD 199,034 56.07 Madhuri Singh (F) INC 106,997 30.14 92,037 25.93
25 Katihar 60.17% Yuvraj BLD 215,074 69.41 Shah Mohammad Tarique 'Anwar' INC 85,285 27.52 129,789 41.89
26 Rajmahal (ST) 39.95% Father Anthoni Murmu BLD 148,677 68.15 Yofesh Chandra Murmu INC 56,191 25.76 92,486 42.39
27 Dumka (ST) 41.42% Bateshwar Hemram BLD 115,386 49.45 Prithiwichand Kisku INC 62,132 26.63 53,254 22.82
28 Godda 57.91% Jagdambi Prasad Yadav BLD 250,749 70.01 Jagdish N. Mandal INC 91,758 25.62 158,991 44.39
29 Banka 55.14% Limaye Madhu BLD 239,550 71.14 Chandra Shekhar Singh INC 78,866 23.42 160,684 47.72
30 Bhagalpur 63.65% Dr. Ramji Singh BLD 304,791 71.74 Bhagalpur INC 120,073 28.26 184,718 43.48
31 Khagaria 63.14% Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav BLD 230,687 57.22 Jai N. Mehta INC 81,395 20.19 149,292 37.03
32 Monghyr 74.00% Shri Krishna Singh BLD 337,791 66.15 Devendra Prasad Yadav INC 164,174 32.15 173,617 34.00
33 Begusarai 63.22% Shyam Nandan Mishra BLD 185,382 44.48 Tarkeshri Sinha (F) INC 150,154 36.03 35,228 8.45
34 Nalanda 71.63% Birendra Prasad BLD 284,684 54.06 Vijay Kumar Yadav CPI 143,662 27.28 141,022 26.78
35 Patna 68.02% Maha Maya Prasad Sinha BLD 382,363 76.61 Ramavatar Shastri CPI 59,238 11.87 323,125 64.74
36 Arrah 65.00% Chandradeo Prasad Verma BLD 323,913 70.67 Baliram Bhagat INC 113,036 24.66 210,877 46.01
37 Buxar 63.38% Rama Nand Tiwary BLD 286,418 65.04 Anant Prasad Sharma INC 82,705 18.78 203,713 46.26
38 Sasaram (SC) 64.98% Jagjivan Ram BLD 327,995 78.49 Mungeri Lall INC 84,185 20.15 243,810 58.34
39 Bikramganj 61.39% Ram Awadhesh Singh BLD 248,578 59.57 Ram Subhag Singh INC 96,827 23.21 151,751 36.36
40 Aurangabad 61.44% Satyendra Narain Singh BLD 251,139 61.76 Ram Swaroop Yadav INC 130,692 32.14 120,447 29.62
41 Jahanabad 66.44% Hari Lal Prasad Sinha BLD 317,954 64.85 Chandrika Prasad Yadav INC 66,984 13.66 250,970 51.19
42 Nawada (SC) 69.87% Nathuni Ram BLD 429,785 84.00 Mahabir Chaudhary INC 67,084 13.11 362,701 70.89
43 Gaya (SC) 69.29% Ishwar Chaudhry BLD 341,000 77.60 Mishri Sada INC 92,682 21.09 248,318 56.51
44 Chatra 47.97% Sukdeo Prasad Verma BLD 203,878 74.99 Shankar Dayal Singh INC 60,344 22.19 143,534 52.80
45 Kodarma 43.38% Ritlal Prasad Verma BLD 169,387 67.34 Chaplendu Bhattacharyyia INC 53,359 21.21 116,028 46.13
46 Giridih 50.03% Ram Das Singh BLD 164,120 58.35 I. Ahmad INC 85,843 30.52 78,277 27.83
47 Dhanbad 45.39% A. K. Roy IND 205,495 68.74 Ram Narain Sharma INC 63,646 21.29 141,849 47.45
48 Hazaribagh 47.73% Kunwar Basant Narain Singh BLD 186,058 64.67 Damodar Pandey INC 44,941 15.62 141,117 49.05
49 Ranchi 47.84% Ravindra Verma BLD 130,938 49.02 Sheo Prasad Sahu INC 68,222 25.54 62,716 23.48
50 Jamshedpur 46.85% Rudra Pratap Sarangi BLD 131,419 50.16 V. G. Gopal INC 67,666 25.83 63,753 24.33
51 Singhbhum (ST) 34.46% Bagun Sumbrui JKP 126,288 73.31 Moran Singh Purty INC 24,422 14.18 101,866 59.13
52 Khunti (ST) 33.93% Karia Munda BLD 91,859 49.99 Nirel Mundu JKP 56,976 31.01 34,883 18.98
53 Lohardaga (ST) 45.74% Lalu Oraon BLD 142,274 56.93 Kartik Oraon INC 77,391 30.97 64,883 25.96
54 Palamau (SC) 45.80% Ramdeni Ram BLD 201,861 77.56 Kamla Kumari (F) INC 39,022 14.99 162,839 62.57

References

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