Election
Constituency

85. Bahera

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1985

BR-BAHERA

IND 28.3%won by 2.4%LKD 26.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 2.4%.

  • IND vote shareIND went from 0.1% to 28.3% of the vote here (+28.3%).
  • New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1980.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.3% between them, down from 89.8% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
73,090
Margin
1,725
2.36%

Candidates

18 contested · winner IND
  1. 1MAHENDRA JHA AZADIndependent · IND20,69528.3%
  2. 2ABDUL BARI SIDDIQUILKD · LKD18,97026.0%
  3. 3PRABHU NARAIN JHAIndian National Congress · INC12,95117.7%
  4. 4YUGESHWAR SAHNIIndependent · IND6,5108.9%
  5. 5RAM KUMAR JHACommunist Party of India · CPI6,3948.7%
  6. 6KISHORE KUMAR JHAJanata Party · JNP2,7343.7%
  7. 7KAILASH JHAIndependent · IND2,0972.9%
  8. 8PHANIND JHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,1991.6%
  9. 9RAM LAKHAN YADAVIndependent · IND3290.5%
  10. 10NAGENDRA LAL KARNIndependent · IND3210.4%
  11. 11RAJENDRA JHAIndependent · IND2020.3%
  12. 12LAXMAN DASIndependent · IND1500.2%
  13. 13LAKHAN JHAIndependent · IND1490.2%
  14. 14SHYAM CHANDRA JHAIndependent · IND1280.2%
  15. 15SITA RAM JHAIndependent · IND850.1%
  16. 16DAVENDRA JHAIndependent · IND760.1%
  17. 17PHANI BHUSHAN JHAIndependent · IND710.1%
  18. 18LALIT MOHAN JHAIndependent · IND290.0%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INDflipped
IND–LKD swing
+2.3%
IND share
0.1% → 28.3%
LKD share
0.0% → 26.0%
Turnout
— → —
84. Manigachhi86. Ghanshyampur
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