Constituency
202. Barh
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-BARH
INC 56.4%won by 19.3%BJP 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 12.9% to 56.4% of the vote here (+43.5%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 37.1% — it polled just 1.2% in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.5% of the vote between them, up from 76.0% — 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
1,10,633
Margin
21,356
19.30%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1BHUNESHWAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC62,42156.4%
- 2VISHWA MOHAN CHAUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP41,06537.1%
- 3RANA SHIVALAKHPATI SINGHICS · ICS4,2883.9%
- 4WAGESHWER PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,8971.7%
- 5NATHO MUNI SAOIndependent · IND4080.4%
- 6AWADESH KUMARIndependent · IND1020.1%
- 7RAM LAKHAN SINGHIndependent · IND980.1%
- 8VIJAYANAND PURIIndependent · IND720.1%
- 9KRISHNA NANDAN SINGHIndependent · IND710.1%
- 10DEENA NATH SINGHIndependent · IND640.1%
- 11SIDHESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND600.1%
- 12BHARAT BHOOSHAN VERMAIndependent · IND600.1%
- 13RAM KISHUN SINGHIndependent · IND270.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +7.5%
- INC share
- 12.9% → 56.4%
- BJP share
- 1.2% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- — → —