Election
Constituency

35. Manjhi

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1985

BR-MANJHI

IND 29.4%won by 9.2%JNP 20.2%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 9.2%.

  • IND vote shareIND went from 1.7% to 29.4% of the vote here (+27.6%).
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.6% between them, down from 95.4% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
70,074
Margin
6,431
9.18%

Candidates

19 contested · winner IND
  1. 1BUDHAN PRASAD YADAVIndependent · IND20,58329.4%
  2. 2HAJARI SINGHJanata Party · JNP14,15220.2%
  3. 3RAMESHWAR DUTT SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC11,81816.9%
  4. 4DINDAYAL SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,4759.2%
  5. 5RAMNATH SINGHIndependent · IND4,7976.8%
  6. 6SABHAPATI PANDEYIndependent · IND3,5615.1%
  7. 7CHANDESWAR SINGHICS · ICS3,0314.3%
  8. 8JAGAT KISHORE GIRIIndependent · IND1,4902.1%
  9. 9BADRI GONDIndependent · IND1,2181.7%
  10. 10JAI PRAKASH SINGHIndependent · IND6020.9%
  11. 11MUNSHI PRASADIndependent · IND5040.7%
  12. 12AKHILESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND3350.5%
  13. 13CHANDRA SHEKHAR YADAVIndependent · IND3120.4%
  14. 14OM PRAKASH TIWARIIndependent · IND2780.4%
  15. 15SHANKAR PATHAKIndependent · IND2630.4%
  16. 16VIRENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND2320.3%
  17. 17TRIBHUWAN RAIIndependent · IND2090.3%
  18. 18SURENDRA KUMAR RAWATIndependent · IND1240.2%
  19. 19RAGHUVIR BHARTIIndependent · IND900.1%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INDflipped
IND–JNP swing
+54.8%
IND share
1.7% → 29.4%
JNP share
47.3% → 20.2%
Turnout
— → —
34. Raghunathpur36. Baniapur
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