Constituency
59. Muzaffarpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-MUZAFFARPUR
INC 80.2%won by 67.5%BJP 12.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 54.5% to 67.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.9% of the vote between them, up from 80.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
1,04,105
Margin
70,298
67.53%
Candidates
17 contested · winner INC- 1RAGHUNATH PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC83,49580.2%
- 2RAJESHWAR PD. SINGH BHIKARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,19712.7%
- 3RAJESHWAR PRASAD SAHLKD · LKD2,5612.5%
- 4THAKUR PD. SINGHJanata Party · JNP2,5402.4%
- 5MOH. SAHIDIndependent · IND6170.6%
- 6RAM BABU PATELICS · ICS4500.4%
- 7GOPAL PRASADIndependent · IND3340.3%
- 8VISHNU DAYAL SHARMAIndependent · IND2110.2%
- 9SHAMBHU RAIIndependent · IND1290.1%
- 10JITERNDRA PD. HARSHIndependent · IND1010.1%
- 11UMA SHANKAR PD. CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND970.1%
- 12DIGVIJOY PANDEYIndependent · IND930.1%
- 13ASIF HUSSAINIndependent · IND740.1%
- 14CHANDRAMANI BHUSHANIndependent · IND730.1%
- 15VINDA SINGHIndependent · IND570.1%
- 16HARSH KUMARIndependent · IND450.0%
- 17AMITABH KUMARIndependent · IND310.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +13.0%
- INC share
- 67.6% → 80.2%
- BJP share
- 13.1% → 12.7%
- Turnout
- — → —