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165. Pirpainti

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1985

BR-PIRPAINTI

INC 47.4%won by 4.7%CPI 42.6%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.4% to 4.7%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.0% of the vote between them, up from 75.4% — a tighter two-way 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
86,484
Margin
4,089
4.73%

Candidates

7 contested · winner INC
  1. 1DILIP KUMAR SINHAIndian National Congress · INC40,95247.4%
  2. 2AMBIKA PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI36,86342.6%
  3. 3SHOBHAKANT MADALLKD · LKD6,7557.8%
  4. 4RANJIT GOSWAMIIndependent · IND7490.9%
  5. 5BANWARI LAL KHETANIndependent · IND4890.6%
  6. 6RAM LAKHAN TANTIIndependent · IND3840.4%
  7. 7ANANT LAL MANDALIndependent · IND2920.3%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPI swing
+1.3%
INC share
39.4% → 47.4%
CPI share
36.0% → 42.6%
Turnout
— → —
164. Mahagama166. Colgong
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