Constituency
34. Raghunathpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-RAGHUNATHPUR
INC 37.5%won by 6.8%JNP 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.5% to 6.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Janata Party (JNP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.2% between them, down from 78.8% — 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
78,543
Margin
5,365
6.83%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1VIJAY SHANKER DUBEYIndian National Congress · INC29,45537.5%
- 2VIKRAM KUARJanata Party · JNP24,09030.7%
- 3ALI SANJARIndependent · IND7,6659.8%
- 4RAMADHAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI5,1356.5%
- 5SHEO PRASSAN YADAVLKD · LKD3,8424.9%
- 6NAWSER SAHIndependent · IND3,7394.8%
- 7ALI AKABAR KHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,7993.6%
- 8SHANKER NATH VIDYARATHIICJ · ICJ7811.0%
- 9SHEO DUTT BHARIndependent · IND5570.7%
- 10MRITYUNJAY TIWARYIndependent · IND4800.6%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −38.4%
- INC share
- 53.2% → 37.5%
- JNP share
- 8.0% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- — → —