Constituency
158. Deoghar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-DEOGHAR
INC 37.8%won by 8.4%CPI 29.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.0% to 8.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered5 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
43,905
Margin
3,667
8.35%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1BAIDYANATH DASIndian National Congress · INC16,58937.8%
- 2SURESH PASWANCommunist Party of India · CPI12,92229.4%
- 3RAGHUNATH DASIndependent · IND6,48614.8%
- 4SHIVRAM CHOUDHRYJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM3,0426.9%
- 5KULDIP RABIDASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,2475.1%
- 6HURO HAZRAIndependent · IND1,5993.6%
- 7JAGNARAYAN DASJanata Party · JNP5911.3%
- 8BABULAL DASIndependent · IND4291.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −24.6%
- INC share
- 48.3% → 37.8%
- CPI share
- 15.3% → 29.4%
- Turnout
- — → —