Election
Constituency

139. Purnea

Community mirror

Bihar Assembly Election, 1985

BR-PURNEA

CPM 48.0%won by 12.5%INC 35.5%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.5% to 12.5%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.5% of the vote between them, up from 73.5% — a tighter two-way 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
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
72,481
Margin
9,074
12.52%

Candidates

18 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1AJIT CHANDRASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM34,79048.0%
  2. 2KAMAL DEO NARAYAN SINHAIndian National Congress · INC25,71635.5%
  3. 3NAZRUL ISLAMIndependent · IND4,3366.0%
  4. 4GURU PD. SAHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,9982.8%
  5. 5VISHWA NATH KEJRIWALJanata Party · JNP1,0421.4%
  6. 6SYED ROASHAN ALIIndependent · IND9551.3%
  7. 7KALA NAND SINGHIndependent · IND6140.8%
  8. 8ARIF RABBANIIndependent · IND5070.7%
  9. 9BHOLA NATH ALOKIndependent · IND4570.6%
  10. 10UMA KANT SINGHIndependent · IND4350.6%
  11. 11RAM PRAVESH PD. SINGHIndependent · IND3700.5%
  12. 12KRITYA NAND SHARMAIndependent · IND3030.4%
  13. 13BHAGWAN DASIndependent · IND2090.3%
  14. 14KRISHNA DEO PASWANIndependent · IND1920.3%
  15. 15ARUN PRASAD SAHIndependent · IND1880.3%
  16. 16PRADIP N. KUWARIndependent · IND1540.2%
  17. 17SURENDRA JHAIndependent · IND1270.2%
  18. 18NASIM KHANIndependent · IND880.1%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
−4.0%
CPM share
45.0% → 48.0%
INC share
28.5% → 35.5%
Turnout
— → —
138. Kasba140. Korha
Back to the BR Assembly 1985 explorer