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Constituency

142. Katihar

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1985

BR-KATIHAR

INC 51.6%won by 22.4%BJP 29.2%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.6% to 22.4%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.9% of the vote between them, up from 61.1% — 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
68,593
Margin
15,370
22.41%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCBJP swing
+19.8%
INC share
31.8% 51.6%
BJP share
29.3% 29.2%
Turnout