Constituency
56. Kanti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-KANTI
SUC 26.9%won by 0.3%LKD 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedSUC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.8% to 0.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 26.6% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 53.6% between them, down from 70.9% — 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
66,383
Margin
209
0.31%
Candidates
19 contested · winner SUC- 1NALINI RANJAN SINGHSUC · SUC17,89026.9%
- 2TARKESHARI SINHALKD · LKD17,68126.6%
- 3BHUNESHWAR RAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,10913.7%
- 4KAILASH BIHARI SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC8,41512.7%
- 5SAMSUL HODAIndependent · IND6,1709.3%
- 6VJOY PRASAD SINGHJanata Party · JNP1,8712.8%
- 7RAMCHANDRA CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND1,0461.6%
- 8LAKHENDRA CHAUDHARYCommunist Party of India · CPI7481.1%
- 9RAMDEO SHARMAIndependent · IND6931.0%
- 10LALITESHWAR PRASAD YADAVIndependent · IND5870.9%
- 11SACHHIDA NAND SINGHIndependent · IND5590.8%
- 12RADHIKA DEVIIndependent · IND4380.7%
- 13ISHWAR NA. SINGHIndependent · IND3650.5%
- 14AJOY SHANKAR SHARMAIndependent · IND2770.4%
- 15KAUSHAL KISHORE THAKURIndependent · IND2290.3%
- 16CHANDRA SHEKHAR SINGHIndependent · IND1080.2%
- 17MAHESHWAR MISHRAIndependent · IND1050.2%
- 18LAKHI PASWANIndependent · IND470.1%
- 19SHYAM KUMAR OJHAIndependent · IND450.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- SUC
- Winner now
- SUC
- SUC–LKD swing
- −44.0%
- SUC share
- 44.3% → 26.9%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- — → —