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218. Brahmpur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1985

BR-BRAHMPUR

INC 35.5%won by 1.7%BJP 33.8%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.6% to 1.7%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 69.4% of the vote between them, up from 60.5% — 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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Valid votes
86,280
Margin
1,485
1.72%

Candidates

12 contested · winner INC
  1. 1RISHIKESH TIWARYIndian National Congress · INC30,67035.5%
  2. 2SWAMI NATH TIWARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP29,18533.8%
  3. 3RAMA KANT THAKURJanata Party · JNP11,17513.0%
  4. 4SACHIDA NAND SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI6,0477.0%
  5. 5AJIT KUMAR CHOWDHARYLKD · LKD4,0284.7%
  6. 6JAG NARAIN SINGHICJ · ICJ1,7242.0%
  7. 7SIDHNATH SINGHIndependent · IND1,1771.4%
  8. 8RAM BACHAN YADAVIndependent · IND1,0411.2%
  9. 9AWADH BEHARI PATHAKIndependent · IND6240.7%
  10. 10AMOGH HARENDRA SHASTRIICS · ICS3730.4%
  11. 11SHEO NATH PANDEIndependent · IND1280.1%
  12. 12PARASMUNI PANDEYIndependent · IND1080.1%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–BJP swing
−1.9%
INC share
32.1% → 35.5%
BJP share
28.5% → 33.8%
Turnout
— → —
217. Shahpur219. Buxar
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