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170. Bihpur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1985

BR-BIHPUR

INC 46.5%won by 23.4%BJP 23.1%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.5% to 23.4%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 69.5% of the vote between them, up from 61.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 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
71,313
Margin
16,688
23.40%

Candidates

12 contested · winner INC
  1. 1RAJENDRA PRASAD SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC33,13746.5%
  2. 2BALBHADRA CHOUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,44923.1%
  3. 3TRIVENI CHOUDHARYCommunist Party of India · CPI13,22318.5%
  4. 4SUBODH KUMAR SHAIndependent · IND4,6076.5%
  5. 5JAGDISH MANDALIndependent · IND2,1022.9%
  6. 6BIMAL KUMAR TRIVEDIIndependent · IND5300.7%
  7. 7JANARDHAN CHOUDHARYLKD · LKD4020.6%
  8. 8KISHORE JHAICJ · ICJ2570.4%
  9. 9UMAKANT SHARMAIndependent · IND1880.3%
  10. 10VEDA NAND KUMARIndependent · IND1760.2%
  11. 11AMRENDER KUMARIndependent · IND1580.2%
  12. 12SUKDEO PRASAD MANDALIndependent · IND840.1%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–BJP swing
+10.9%
INC share
37.1% → 46.5%
BJP share
24.6% → 23.1%
Turnout
— → —
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