Constituency
239. Rafiganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-RAFIGANJ
INC 71.4%won by 52.0%CPI 19.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 52.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 3.6% to 71.4% of the vote here (+67.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.8% of the vote between them, up from 80.1% — 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
68,167
Margin
35,430
51.98%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1VIJAY KUMAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC48,67071.4%
- 2ISTEYAK AHMAD KHANCommunist Party of India · CPI13,24019.4%
- 3DEO N.PRASAD SINGHLKD · LKD2,7414.0%
- 4MD. IFTEKHARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,3632.0%
- 5CHANDRADIP YADAVIndependent · IND1,3141.9%
- 6SURESH MISTRIIndependent · IND5680.8%
- 7SHYAM RAJ PD. SINGHIndependent · IND1570.2%
- 8ITESHAM UDINIndependent · IND1140.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +73.2%
- INC share
- 3.6% → 71.4%
- CPI share
- 24.9% → 19.4%
- Turnout
- — → —