Constituency
147. Rajmahal
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-RAJMAHAL
BJP 41.6%won by 0.6%INC 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.7% to 0.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.7% between them, down from 87.8% — the field split more ways.
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
71,428
Margin
397
0.56%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1DHRUVA BHAGATBharatiya Janata Party · BJP29,72741.6%
- 2DASRATH MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC29,33041.1%
- 3INDU BHUSHAN PRASAD MAHTOLKD · LKD2,8484.0%
- 4DAROGI MANDALCommunist Party of India · CPI2,7063.8%
- 5LALIT AGARWALJanata Party · JNP1,9932.8%
- 6JANARDAN PRASAD GUPTAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,9262.7%
- 7ASAD ALIIndependent · IND6280.9%
- 8DURGA CHARAN GHOSHIndependent · IND5030.7%
- 9MAFAZAL SEIKHIndependent · IND4050.6%
- 10PASHUPATI SAHIndependent · IND2840.4%
- 11UDAI BHAN SINGHIndependent · IND2680.4%
- 12CHANDA SINGHIndependent · IND2600.4%
- 13RAMESHWAR MANDALIndependent · IND2320.3%
- 14SURESH CHOURASIAIndependent · IND2210.3%
- 15PARMESHWAR PRASAD MODIIndependent · IND970.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −1.1%
- BJP share
- 44.7% → 41.6%
- INC share
- 43.1% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —