Constituency
242. Arwal
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-ARWAL
IND 55.2%won by 29.2%INC 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.5% to 29.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.1% of the vote between them, up from 41.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,18,939
Margin
34,747
29.21%
Candidates
20 contested · winner IND- 1KRISHNA NANDAN PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND65,62155.2%
- 2RAM PRASAD OJHAIndian National Congress · INC30,87426.0%
- 3SATYA NA. SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI10,4298.8%
- 4RAMASHISH SINGHIndependent · IND4,4423.7%
- 5RANG BAHADUR SINGHIndependent · IND3,1222.6%
- 6ARUN KUMAR BHARTIIndependent · IND1,4841.2%
- 7YOGENDRA KUMARLKD · LKD1,1230.9%
- 8BANESHWAR PRASAD SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7410.6%
- 9MANOJ KUMARJanata Party · JNP2740.2%
- 10RAM PUKAR MISARIndependent · IND1470.1%
- 11LAKHAN RAMIndependent · IND1320.1%
- 12UPENDRA NARAIN SINGHIndependent · IND1140.1%
- 13JAGDISH CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND1070.1%
- 14MAHENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND800.1%
- 15PHUL KUMARI DEVIIndependent · IND730.1%
- 16LAXMI SINGHIndependent · IND560.0%
- 17JAGDISH NATHIndependent · IND500.0%
- 18BRINDA CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND410.0%
- 19SATYA DEOIndependent · IND180.0%
- 20LALESWAR SINGHIndependent · IND110.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- +27.7%
- IND share
- 21.3% → 55.2%
- INC share
- 19.8% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —