Constituency
166. Colgong
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-COLGONG
IND 40.9%won by 14.2%INC 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 14.2%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 1.1% to 40.9% of the vote here (+39.8%).
- 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
87,714
Margin
12,422
14.16%
Candidates
13 contested · winner IND- 1SADA NAND SINGHIndependent · IND35,86740.9%
- 2KRISHNA MOHAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC23,44526.7%
- 3NARSINGH PRA MAHTOCommunist Party of India · CPI10,37411.8%
- 4BRAJESH PRASAD BERMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,7867.7%
- 5FAUDARI PASWANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,6837.6%
- 6GAURI SHANKAR SAHLKD · LKD2,1342.4%
- 7JAMAL AHMADIndependent · IND9191.0%
- 8RAM NATH TIWARIIndependent · IND3970.5%
- 9DA KUMARI MINA SINHAIndependent · IND3870.4%
- 10BASUDEO PRASAD SAHIndependent · IND3650.4%
- 11RAGHUNANDAN SINGHIndependent · IND1520.2%
- 12BAL MUKAND SAHIndependent · IND1090.1%
- 13IMDA ULLAHIndependent · IND960.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +71.1%
- IND share
- 1.1% → 40.9%
- INC share
- 58.1% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —