Constituency
224. Sahar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-SAHAR
INC 55.0%won by 37.1%LKD 17.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: JNPSC (JNPSC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 37.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.2% to 55.0% of the vote here (+25.8%).
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 17.9% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.0% of the vote between them, up from 62.5% — 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
66,281
Margin
24,589
37.10%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1JYOTIIndian National Congress · INC36,47955.0%
- 2BHAGWATI PRASAD VERMALKD · LKD11,89017.9%
- 3SIDHA NATH RAMIndependent · IND11,55017.4%
- 4DINESHWAR PRASADIndependent · IND3,6675.5%
- 5RAMJI PASWANIndependent · IND7511.1%
- 6DINESHWAR PRASADJanata Party · JNP6411.0%
- 7LALAN RAMIndependent · IND5030.8%
- 8LALAN RAMIndependent · IND3420.5%
- 9RAMANAND DASIndependent · IND1560.2%
- 10BHISM RAMIndependent · IND1520.2%
- 11SURESH RAMIndependent · IND800.1%
- 12NANDJI RAMIndependent · IND700.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNPSC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LKD swing
- +7.9%
- INC share
- 29.2% → 55.0%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 17.9%
- Turnout
- — → —