Constituency
90. Keoti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-KEOTI
INC 32.0%won by 9.7%JNP 22.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.6% to 9.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 22.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.3% between them, down from 65.3% — 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
87,932
Margin
8,526
9.70%
Candidates
17 contested · winner INC- 1KLIM AHMADIndian National Congress · INC28,15832.0%
- 2RAJ KISHORE YADAVJanata Party · JNP19,63222.3%
- 3BIJOY KANT THAKURCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM12,15813.8%
- 4DURGA DAS RATHOURBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,09211.5%
- 5MUMTAZ AKHTARIndependent · IND5,4986.3%
- 6VINOD KANT MISHRAIndependent · IND4,2904.9%
- 7DAYA RAM PRASAD GUPTALKD · LKD3,2283.7%
- 8IFTEKHAR AHMADIndependent · IND1,5301.7%
- 9MADAN MOHAN JHAIndependent · IND1,0731.2%
- 10SEKH JAMSHAIDIndependent · IND6520.7%
- 11SACHIDA NAND CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND5730.7%
- 12ASTHANA VIJYENDRA NARAIN SINHAIndependent · IND4920.6%
- 13MD. JAKIRIndependent · IND1410.2%
- 14BASI ALAMIndependent · IND1230.1%
- 15A. ANSARIIndependent · IND1200.1%
- 16RAM BRIKSH YADAVIndependent · IND870.1%
- 17RAJ KUMAR CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND850.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −27.3%
- INC share
- 37.0% → 32.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 22.3%
- Turnout
- — → —