Constituency
187. Surajgarha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-SURAJGARHA
INC 43.2%won by 25.8%CPI 17.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: INCU (INCU) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 25.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 13.7% to 43.2% of the vote here (+29.5%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 17.4% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 60.5% of the vote between them, up from 46.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,01,330
Margin
26,161
25.82%
Candidates
15 contested · winner INC- 1ALAKH SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC43,75343.2%
- 2SATIS KUMARCommunist Party of India · CPI17,59217.4%
- 3PRASIDHA NARAYAN SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,80216.6%
- 4RAMJI PRASAD MAHTOIndependent · IND10,28910.2%
- 5ARJUN KUMAR BINDJanata Party · JNP6,6506.6%
- 6UPENDRA LALIndependent · IND1,9001.9%
- 7SURENDRA MANDALLKD · LKD1,8561.8%
- 8BABU LAL YADAVIndependent · IND1,5661.5%
- 9BALMIKI MAHTOIndependent · IND2970.3%
- 10VIJAY KUMAR SHKPURIIndependent · IND1570.2%
- 11MAHINDRA YADAVIndependent · IND1160.1%
- 12BHAWAN PRASADIndependent · IND1020.1%
- 13NARESH KR. MAHTOIndependent · IND1000.1%
- 14ASARIFI YADAFIndependent · IND800.1%
- 15JANARDHAN MAHTOIndependent · IND700.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INCU
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +12.2%
- INC share
- 13.7% → 43.2%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 17.4%
- Turnout
- — → —