Constituency
6. Lauria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-LAURIA
INC 54.4%won by 31.6%LKD 22.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 31.5% to 31.6%.
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 22.8% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
66,397
Margin
21,002
31.63%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1VISHWA MOHAN SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC36,12354.4%
- 2RAM PRASAD YADAVLKD · LKD15,12122.8%
- 3EJAJ AHMEDJanata Party · JNP10,92216.4%
- 4JAI PRAKASH PRASADICJ · ICJ1,1731.8%
- 5KRIPA NATH JHAIndependent · IND1,1341.7%
- 6RAMDHARI PRASAD YADAVIndependent · IND1,1081.7%
- 7VIDYARTHI THAKURIndependent · IND4690.7%
- 8GOBRI SAHIndependent · IND3470.5%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–LKD swing
- −24.9%
- INC share
- 56.5% → 54.4%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 22.8%
- Turnout
- — → —