Constituency
69. Majorganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-MAJORGANJ
INC 44.3%won by 18.3%JNP 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.0% to 18.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 26.1% — it polled just 1.4% in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.4% between them, down from 92.9% — 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
63,104
Margin
11,527
18.27%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1RAM VRIKSH RAMIndian National Congress · INC27,97244.3%
- 2DINKAR RAMJanata Party · JNP16,44526.1%
- 3TAPESHWAR PASWANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,43515.0%
- 4GAURI SHANKAR NAGDANSHLKD · LKD3,7606.0%
- 5SURENDRA RAMIndependent · IND3,5565.6%
- 6RAMLICHAN BAITHAICS · ICS1,3532.1%
- 7BHIKHARI BAITHAIndependent · IND3000.5%
- 8RUDUL PASWANIndependent · IND1470.2%
- 9JILDAR RAMIndependent · IND1360.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −44.8%
- INC share
- 64.4% → 44.3%
- JNP share
- 1.4% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- — → —