Constituency
130. Araria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-ARARIA
INC 44.0%won by 1.5%LKD 42.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: JNPSC (JNPSC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.6% to 44.0% of the vote here (+21.5%).
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 42.6% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.6% of the vote between them, up from 59.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
74,749
Margin
1,099
1.47%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1HALIMUDDIN AHMEDIndian National Congress · INC32,91844.0%
- 2NAND KISHORE MANDALLKD · LKD31,81942.6%
- 3KRITYANAND MISHRAJanata Party · JNP5,5747.5%
- 4DEO NARAIN MISHRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,0452.7%
- 5VISHWANATHIndependent · IND1,6862.3%
- 6BAJHUL QAMARIndependent · IND7070.9%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNPSC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LKD swing
- −21.1%
- INC share
- 22.6% → 44.0%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 42.6%
- Turnout
- — → —