Constituency
33. Maharajganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-MAHARAJGANJ
JNP 40.0%won by 11.4%INC 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.8% to 11.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.6% between them, down from 78.7% — the field split more ways.
- 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
88,932
Margin
10,114
11.37%
Candidates
11 contested · winner JNP- 1UMA SHANKER SINGHJanata Party · JNP35,57540.0%
- 2ANUSUYA JAISWALIndian National Congress · INC25,46128.6%
- 3SRI PRABHUNATH SINGHIndependent · IND20,09822.6%
- 4UMA SHANKER SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI2,5592.9%
- 5SATYADEO MAHTOIndependent · IND2,1272.4%
- 6SHEO SHARAN SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,7422.0%
- 7SATYA NARAYAN YADAVLKD · LKD7730.9%
- 8ANIL KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND2120.2%
- 9CHANDRA BHUSHAN PANDEYIndependent · IND2000.2%
- 10SRIBHAGWAN SINGHIndependent · IND1240.1%
- 11SRIDIP NARAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND610.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–INC swing
- +4.6%
- JNP share
- 42.7% → 40.0%
- INC share
- 35.9% → 28.6%
- Turnout
- — → —