Constituency
161. Jama
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-JAMA
JMM 66.2%won by 34.9%INC 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedJharkhand Mukti Morcha held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.6% to 34.9%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 31.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.5% of the vote between them, up from 86.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
52,609
Margin
18,344
34.87%
Candidates
5 contested · winner JMM- 1SHIBU SORENJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM34,82866.2%
- 2PROME MURMUIndian National Congress · INC16,48431.3%
- 3MANGOL SORENIndependent · IND5661.1%
- 4MOHARIL MURMUIndependent · IND4410.8%
- 5ARUNA HANSDAHIndependent · IND2900.6%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JMM
- Winner now
- JMM
- JMM–INC swing
- −21.0%
- JMM share
- 55.8% → 66.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- — → —