Constituency
142. Katihar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-KATIHAR
INC 51.6%won by 22.4%BJP 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
68,593
Margin
15,370
22.41%
Candidates
18 contested · winner INC- 1SATYA NARAYAN PRASADIndian National Congress · INC35,41951.6%
- 2JAGBANDHU ADHIKARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,04929.2%
- 3RAM PRAKASH MAHTOLKD · LKD7,01010.2%
- 4SAJJAN KUMAR SHARMAICS · ICS2,4823.6%
- 5LALJI BHAGAT URAONIndependent · IND6250.9%
- 6SHEO PRASAD TANTIAIndependent · IND5090.7%
- 7KAILASH MAHTOIndependent · IND4930.7%
- 8RADHA PRASAD MAHTOIndependent · IND4870.7%
- 9GULAM RASOOLIndependent · IND3950.6%
- 10RAJ KUMAR GUPTAIndependent · IND2290.3%
- 11BHOLA MAHTOIndependent · IND1680.2%
- 12RAGHUNATH SINGHIndependent · IND1350.2%
- 13SHER MOHAMMADIndependent · IND1350.2%
- 14SUSHIL KR. BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND1260.2%
- 15DILIP KUMAR DATTAIndependent · IND1210.2%
- 16KAMALIndependent · IND900.1%
- 17SAGIRUDDIN AHMADIndependent · IND760.1%
- 18ABDUL WAHABIndependent · IND440.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +19.8%
- INC share
- 31.8% → 51.6%
- BJP share
- 29.3% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —