Constituency
254. Barachatti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-BARACHATTI
INC 59.4%won by 46.1%LKD 13.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.2% to 46.1%.
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 13.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.6% between them, down from 83.6% — the field split more ways.
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
75,500
Margin
34,780
46.07%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1G.S.RAMCHANDER DASIndian National Congress · INC44,81259.4%
- 2RAMJI MANJHEELKD · LKD10,03213.3%
- 3RAM SWAROOP PASWANIndependent · IND8,76211.6%
- 4BHAGWATI DEVIIndependent · IND7,0629.4%
- 5BACHU RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,5352.0%
- 6DEO KUMAR PRASADJanata Party · JNP1,2401.6%
- 7JAGAN DASIndependent · IND7471.0%
- 8MOHAN RAMICJ · ICJ7181.0%
- 9SHEO SHANKAR RAMIndependent · IND4370.6%
- 10PARYAG KUMARIndependent · IND1550.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–LKD swing
- +2.2%
- INC share
- 43.9% → 59.4%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 13.3%
- Turnout
- — → —