Constituency
220. Rajpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-RAJPUR
BJP 45.7%won by 24.1%LKD 21.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 24.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 20.1% to 45.7% of the vote here (+25.7%).
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 21.7% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.4% of the vote between them, up from 53.6% — 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
61,300
Margin
14,759
24.08%
Candidates
14 contested · winner BJP- 1RAM NARAIN RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP28,03245.7%
- 2NAND KISHORE PRASADLKD · LKD13,27321.7%
- 3CHATURI RAMIndian National Congress · INC7,42912.1%
- 4RAMA SHANKAR RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI3,4885.7%
- 5MAHENDRA RAMIndependent · IND3,1925.2%
- 6KAILASH RAMICJ · ICJ1,4582.4%
- 7CHANDRADEEP PASWANIndependent · IND1,0621.7%
- 8SHEO RATAN RAMIndependent · IND8621.4%
- 9RAM LAL RAM (CHUNNI)Independent · IND7651.2%
- 10DEO DHARI RAMIndependent · IND4740.8%
- 11RAM LAL RAM (KANEHRI)Independent · IND4670.8%
- 12SURENDRA PASWANJanata Party · JNP4290.7%
- 13VEERA RAMIndependent · IND3070.5%
- 14DHARAMDEO RAMIndependent · IND620.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–LKD swing
- +4.0%
- BJP share
- 20.1% → 45.7%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 21.7%
- Turnout
- — → —