Constituency
263. Barhi
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-BARHI
INC 27.0%won by 0.2%CPI 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.2% to 0.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 104 votes (0.23%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered5 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
44,719
Margin
104
0.23%
Candidates
14 contested · winner INC- 1NIRANJAN PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,08227.0%
- 2RAM LAKHAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI11,97826.8%
- 3UMA SHANKRA PRASAD AKELAIndependent · IND6,55614.7%
- 4RAYISH AHMAD KHANJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM4,53210.1%
- 5AMBIKA SINGHJanata Party · JNP4,0919.1%
- 6ASHOK KUMAR YADAVLKD · LKD1,3513.0%
- 7RAM BRIKSHA SINGHIndependent · IND1,1782.6%
- 8SURESH PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6801.5%
- 9VASUDEO PASIIndependent · IND6741.5%
- 10JAGDISH MEHTAIndependent · IND4180.9%
- 11BHARAT PATHAKIndependent · IND3700.8%
- 12ARJAN PANDICS · ICS3510.8%
- 13SARYA BHAGATIndependent · IND3420.8%
- 14ABDUL RAZAKIndependent · IND1160.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −6.0%
- INC share
- 30.4% → 27.0%
- CPI share
- 24.2% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- — → —