Constituency
18. Kesaria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-KESARIA
INC 40.9%won by 8.6%CPI 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.6% to 40.9% of the vote here (+12.3%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.1% of the vote between them, up from 59.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
76,976
Margin
6,638
8.62%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1RAI HARI SHANKAR SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC31,45240.9%
- 2YAMUNA YADAVCommunist Party of India · CPI24,81432.2%
- 3LAXMAN SINGHIndependent · IND12,29616.0%
- 4BABUNAND SHARMAIndependent · IND5,5737.2%
- 5SATYA NARAIN RAILKD · LKD6270.8%
- 6RAVI NATH GIRI PARASIndependent · IND5960.8%
- 7RAM BABU KUMARIndependent · IND5070.7%
- 8PARMANAND PATHAKIndependent · IND3850.5%
- 9FULENA RAIIndependent · IND2430.3%
- 10RAM YASH THAKURIndependent · IND1780.2%
- 11RAGHUNANDAN JHAIndependent · IND1500.2%
- 12NARENDRA PRASADIndependent · IND890.1%
- 13SITARAM YADAVIndependent · IND660.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +7.3%
- INC share
- 28.6% → 40.9%
- CPI share
- 27.2% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —