Constituency
28. Goreakothi
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-GOREAKOTHI
BJP 34.4%won by 3.2%IND 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 3.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 27.5% to 34.4% of the vote here (+6.9%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 31.2% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.5% between them, down from 82.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
76,083
Margin
2,405
3.16%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1INDRA DEO PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP26,13834.4%
- 2AJIT KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND23,73331.2%
- 3KRISHNA KANT SINGHIndian National Congress · INC15,43820.3%
- 4HARI KISHORE TIWARYCommunist Party of India · CPI6,0718.0%
- 5MUHAMMAD NEMATULLAHIndependent · IND2,0772.7%
- 6ABDUL RASHIDLKD · LKD5160.7%
- 7RAMAYAN PRASADIndependent · IND4970.7%
- 8CHANDRIKAIndependent · IND4690.6%
- 9GAUTAMIndependent · IND3920.5%
- 10SUKRIT SHARAN SINGHIndependent · IND3300.4%
- 11ABDUL FATAHIndependent · IND1970.3%
- 12SHYAMDEO ROYIndependent · IND1310.2%
- 13VINDA CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND940.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–IND swing
- −24.3%
- BJP share
- 27.5% → 34.4%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —