Constituency
87. Baheri
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-BAHERI
INC 38.9%won by 20.5%LKD 18.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.5% to 20.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 18.5% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.4% between them, down from 80.5% — 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
96,774
Margin
19,797
20.46%
Candidates
16 contested · winner INC- 1PERMANAND THAKURIndian National Congress · INC37,65538.9%
- 2RAMANAND SINGHLKD · LKD17,85818.5%
- 3RAM LAKHAN YADAVJanata Party · JNP16,62117.2%
- 4TEJ NARAYAN YADAVIndependent · IND8,8949.2%
- 5BISHAMBHAR CHAUDHRYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,9735.1%
- 6KUMAR KALYAN JHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,3784.5%
- 7MITHILESH KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND3,3693.5%
- 8JAFFARIndependent · IND2,0332.1%
- 9MADHAV CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND2970.3%
- 10MD. YATIM KHANIndependent · IND1600.2%
- 11GOVIND KISHORE THAKURIndependent · IND1370.1%
- 12MANJOOR ALAMIndependent · IND1000.1%
- 13VINOD KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND970.1%
- 14RAM PRAKASH YADAVIndependent · IND950.1%
- 15MAHESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND740.1%
- 16SHIV SHANKAR CHAUDHARYICS · ICS330.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–LKD swing
- −29.1%
- INC share
- 49.5% → 38.9%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 18.5%
- Turnout
- — → —