Constituency
250. Gaya Town
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-GAYA-TOWN
INC 43.4%won by 10.4%CPI 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.7% to 10.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.4% of the vote between them, up from 51.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
79,382
Margin
8,270
10.42%
Candidates
16 contested · winner INC- 1JAI KUMAR PALITIndian National Congress · INC34,45043.4%
- 2SHAKIL AHMAD KHANCommunist Party of India · CPI26,18033.0%
- 3PURNA NAND TARWAYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,21311.6%
- 4YUGAL KISHORE PRASADLKD · LKD6,4908.2%
- 5DHIRENDRAIndependent · IND1,1601.5%
- 6BAIJ NATH SAOIndependent · IND5180.7%
- 7VIJOY KUMAR AMBASTHJanata Party · JNP4840.6%
- 8SHYAMJI GAYABIndependent · IND2590.3%
- 9NAWLESH BARTHNARIndependent · IND1490.2%
- 10SHAMBHU SHARMA PRASADIndependent · IND1350.2%
- 11VIJAY KUMAR SETHIndependent · IND1130.1%
- 12SURESH KUMAR SINHAIndependent · IND660.1%
- 13MD. SALIMIndependent · IND530.1%
- 14RAGHU NATH PRASADIndependent · IND410.1%
- 15LAKHAN PRASADIndependent · IND400.1%
- 16ABHAI KUMAR SINGHAIndependent · IND310.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +5.7%
- INC share
- 28.2% → 43.4%
- CPI share
- 23.5% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —