Constituency
26. Baikunthpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-BAIKUNTHPUR
INC 55.0%won by 16.3%LKD 38.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 16.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 13.8% to 55.0% of the vote here (+41.2%).
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 38.7% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.7% of the vote between them, up from 49.2% — 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
87,924
Margin
14,332
16.30%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BRAJ KISHORE NARAIN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC48,36255.0%
- 2DEODAT ROYLKD · LKD34,03038.7%
- 3SURESH PRASAD SINGHJanata Party · JNP4,4615.1%
- 4RADHA KRISHNA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND5420.6%
- 5BAGESHWAR PRASADIndependent · IND5290.6%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LKD swing
- +2.5%
- INC share
- 13.8% → 55.0%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 38.7%
- Turnout
- — → —