Election
Constituency

118. Mahishi

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1985

BR-MAHISHI

INC 62.5%won by 49.7%LKD 12.9%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 29.2% to 49.7%.

  • New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 12.9% — it did not contest here in 1980.
  • Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,10,768
Margin
55,031
49.68%

Candidates

18 contested · winner INC
  1. 1LAHTAN CHOUDHARYIndian National Congress · INC69,28162.5%
  2. 2DEVANAND YADAVLKD · LKD14,25012.9%
  3. 3SADASHIVA CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND10,1409.2%
  4. 4PARMESHWAR KUMARJanata Party · JNP5,1244.6%
  5. 5ABDUL KHALIL AHMEDCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,8924.4%
  6. 6RAMAGYA PD. SINGHIndependent · IND1,7111.5%
  7. 7A. R. AMBERIndependent · IND1,5991.4%
  8. 8MADAN MOHAN MISHRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP7310.7%
  9. 9ASARFI SHARMAIndependent · IND6180.6%
  10. 10DINESH KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND5950.5%
  11. 11TARA CHARAN JHAIndependent · IND5440.5%
  12. 12NOOR ALAM KHANIndependent · IND3630.3%
  13. 13KHUSAR SADAIndependent · IND3200.3%
  14. 14RAM PUKAR YADAVIndependent · IND2100.2%
  15. 15RAVNESHWAR PD. SINGHIndependent · IND1620.1%
  16. 16LALIT KUMARIndependent · IND940.1%
  17. 17DHYANI PASIndependent · IND700.1%
  18. 18ANWAR ALAMIndependent · IND640.1%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–LKD swing
−1.3%
INC share
51.0% → 62.5%
LKD share
0.0% → 12.9%
Turnout
— → —
117. Saharsa119. Simri-Bakhtiarpur
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