Constituency
155. Jamtara
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-JAMTARA
INC 41.1%won by 5.2%CPI 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.0% to 41.1% of the vote here (+13.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.0% of the vote between them, up from 56.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
61,307
Margin
3,171
5.17%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1MD. FURKAN ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC25,19341.1%
- 2ARUN KUMAR BOSECommunist Party of India · CPI22,02235.9%
- 3DURGA PD. SINGHJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM11,21818.3%
- 4PRABHANJAN TIWARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,6212.6%
- 5HIRA LAL YADAVLKD · LKD4830.8%
- 6PARAS SHARMAJanata Party · JNP3960.6%
- 7NIRMAL KUMAR MEHTAIndependent · IND2230.4%
- 8ABDUL HAMIDIndependent · IND1510.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +5.2%
- INC share
- 28.0% → 41.1%
- CPI share
- 28.0% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- — → —