Constituency
54. Sahebganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-SAHEBGANJ
INC 41.1%won by 0.9%LKD 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: INCU (INCU) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.6% to 41.1% of the vote here (+12.5%).
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 40.2% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.3% of the vote between them, up from 64.4% — 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
89,823
Margin
817
0.91%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1SHIV SHARAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC36,93241.1%
- 2KRISHNA KU. SINHALKD · LKD36,11540.2%
- 3BHAGYA NARAYAN RAICommunist Party of India · CPI6,3987.1%
- 4AKHILANAND SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,1145.7%
- 5VISHWANATH RAIIndependent · IND2,9393.3%
- 6CHANDRIKA PRASADJanata Party · JNP7580.8%
- 7GITA SINGHIndependent · IND3630.4%
- 8BHUNESHWAR PD. SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3410.4%
- 9BALRAM SAHIndependent · IND2920.3%
- 10SHANKAR RAMIndependent · IND2810.3%
- 11ARUN THAKURIndependent · IND1450.2%
- 12SHASHI BHUSAN TIWARIIndependent · IND770.1%
- 13DINESH KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND680.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INCU
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LKD swing
- −27.7%
- INC share
- 28.6% → 41.1%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- — → —