Constituency
80. Jhanjharpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-JHANJHARPUR
INC 80.9%won by 71.5%LKD 9.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 51.6% to 71.5%.
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 9.4% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.4% between them, down from 96.8% — 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
78,233
Margin
55,928
71.49%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1JAGANNATH MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC63,31580.9%
- 2RAS LAL YADAVLKD · LKD7,3879.4%
- 3MADHUSUDAN RAUTIndependent · IND4,6696.0%
- 4DILIP KUMAR CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND6740.9%
- 5HARI SHANKER MISHRAIndependent · IND5420.7%
- 6MOHAN KUMAR KARANIndependent · IND4950.6%
- 7GOVIND NARAIN DASSIndependent · IND3160.4%
- 8NATHESHWAR JHAIndependent · IND3120.4%
- 9RAJ KUMAR MISHRAIndependent · IND1470.2%
- 10SIRIF LAL KAMTIIndependent · IND1300.2%
- 11NAWAL KISHORE CHAYDHAYIndependent · IND1250.2%
- 12PRABHU DAYAL KEJRIWALICS · ICS1210.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–LKD swing
- −2.7%
- INC share
- 74.2% → 80.9%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 9.4%
- Turnout
- — → —