Constituency
61. Gaighatti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-GAIGHATTI
INC 35.8%won by 4.0%LKD 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 16.0% to 35.8% of the vote here (+19.8%).
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 31.7% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.5% of the vote between them, up from 50.2% — 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
87,753
Margin
3,538
4.03%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1VIRENDRA KUMAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC31,39935.8%
- 2MAHESHWAR PRASADLKD · LKD27,86131.7%
- 3JITENDRA PD. SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,76216.8%
- 4PARESH PD. SINGHIndependent · IND5,2125.9%
- 5VIJAYA SINHAJanata Party · JNP4,2124.8%
- 6GOBARDHAN LAL DHAVANIndependent · IND3,0693.5%
- 7AJIT KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND4970.6%
- 8RAMBABU MAHASETHIndependent · IND2740.3%
- 9MARKANDEYA THAKURIndependent · IND2000.2%
- 10BIRENDRA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND1800.2%
- 11HARENDRA NARAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND870.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LKD swing
- −12.0%
- INC share
- 16.0% → 35.8%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —