Election
Constituency

231. Chainpur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1985

BR-CHAINPUR

INC 24.3%won by 3.6%BJP 20.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.6%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 17.6% to 24.3% of the vote here (+6.8%).
  • Multi-cornered6 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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not in source
Valid votes
69,314
Margin
2,514
3.63%

Candidates

18 contested · winner INC
  1. 1PARVEJ AHSAN KHANIndian National Congress · INC16,87024.3%
  2. 2LALMUNI CHAOBEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,35620.7%
  3. 3VIJAY SHANKER SINGHIndependent · IND10,93015.8%
  4. 4RANG BAHADUR SINGHICJ · ICJ10,70815.4%
  5. 5KISHOR PRASAD BINDIndependent · IND3,8925.6%
  6. 6SIDNATH SINGHLKD · LKD3,5435.1%
  7. 7MAHABALI SINGHIndependent · IND3,1994.6%
  8. 8VIKRAMA BINDICS · ICS2,3443.4%
  9. 9RAM SURAT RAMIndependent · IND9581.4%
  10. 10DINA NATH SINGHJanata Party · JNP8961.3%
  11. 11DASHMI RAMIndependent · IND6060.9%
  12. 12JAGAR NATH RAMIndependent · IND2190.3%
  13. 13SIPAHI SINGHIndependent · IND2150.3%
  14. 14SAMAR BAHADUR SINGHIndependent · IND1560.2%
  15. 15KHOBHARI RAMIndependent · IND1360.2%
  16. 16CHATURI PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND1070.2%
  17. 17SHARAD CHAND SINGHIndependent · IND1060.2%
  18. 18HARIDWAR SINGHIndependent · IND730.1%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–BJP swing
+6.9%
INC share
17.6% → 24.3%
BJP share
20.8% → 20.7%
Turnout
— → —
230. Bhabhua232. Sasaram
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