Constituency
153. Sikaripars
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-SIKARIPARS
JMM 36.6%won by 13.0%IND 23.6%
What changed here
DerivedJharkhand Mukti Morcha held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.6% to 13.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.1% 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
40,190
Margin
5,214
12.97%
Candidates
9 contested · winner JMM- 1DAVID MURMUJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM14,69236.6%
- 2NALIN SORENIndependent · IND9,47823.6%
- 3SHIBU MURMUIndian National Congress · INC9,36423.3%
- 4SUBHASH HEMBROMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,68111.6%
- 5KISHAN MAL PAHARIAIndependent · IND7621.9%
- 6CHANDRA MURMUIndependent · IND4671.2%
- 7KISTU MARANDIIndependent · IND4131.0%
- 8NALIN KUMAR MARANDIIndependent · IND2250.6%
- 9SURJU KISKUIndependent · IND1080.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JMM
- Winner now
- JMM
- JMM–IND swing
- −13.7%
- JMM share
- 57.2% → 36.6%
- IND share
- 30.6% → 23.6%
- Turnout
- — → —