Constituency
7. Chanpatia
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-CHANPATIA
CPI 32.4%won by 5.8%INC 26.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.0% to 5.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.9% between them, down from 83.9% — the field split more ways.
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
54,510
Margin
3,169
5.81%
Candidates
16 contested · winner CPI- 1BIRBAL SHARMACommunist Party of India · CPI17,64132.4%
- 2PRABHAT KISHORE DWEVEDIIndian National Congress · INC14,47226.5%
- 3KRISHNA KUMAR MISHRAIndependent · IND11,05520.3%
- 4RAMAKANT PRASADIndependent · IND3,5206.5%
- 5BRAJESHWAR PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,6694.9%
- 6CHHOTE LAL SAHLKD · LKD1,9053.5%
- 7MAZHAR ALAMIndependent · IND1,1982.2%
- 8CHHATHOO SHARMA MISTRIIndependent · IND4570.8%
- 9SRIKANT MISHRAIndependent · IND2970.5%
- 10ZIAUDDINIndependent · IND2880.5%
- 11MAHADEV SAHIndependent · IND2430.4%
- 12NAGENDRA CHOUBEYIndependent · IND2230.4%
- 13RAGHUNANDAN JHAIndependent · IND2020.4%
- 14RAJDEO MAHTOIndependent · IND1460.3%
- 15CHANDRA BHUSHAN MANI MISHRAIndependent · IND1010.2%
- 16PRABHAT KUMAR GUPTAIndependent · IND930.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −7.2%
- CPI share
- 48.5% → 32.4%
- INC share
- 35.5% → 26.5%
- Turnout
- — → —