Constituency
157. Madhupur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-MADHUPUR
INC 59.3%won by 35.4%BJP 23.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 35.8% to 35.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.2% of the vote between them, up from 73.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
69,692
Margin
24,656
35.38%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1KRISHNA NAND JHAIndian National Congress · INC41,30559.3%
- 2CHANCHAL DEVIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,64923.9%
- 3ANIRUDH AZADJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM5,6358.1%
- 4NAND KISHORE PATHAKIndependent · IND2,4663.5%
- 5SHAH ARAF IQUBALIndependent · IND1,1771.7%
- 6TRIBENI PRASAD VERMALKD · LKD1,0831.6%
- 7RAM KRISHNA SINGHRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP7181.0%
- 8FULKU PANDEYFBL · FBL6590.9%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −0.4%
- INC share
- 54.7% → 59.3%
- BJP share
- 18.8% → 23.9%
- Turnout
- — → —