Constituency
264. Chatra
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-CHATRA
BJP 47.7%won by 8.2%INC 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 16.8% to 47.7% of the vote here (+31.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.2% of the vote between them, up from 79.9% — 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
48,142
Margin
3,967
8.24%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1MAHENDRA PRASAD SIGNH BHOGTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,98147.7%
- 2NAND KISHORE PRASADIndian National Congress · INC19,01439.5%
- 3JAGDHARI RAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,0006.2%
- 4MUSENDRA DASLKD · LKD1,0422.2%
- 5FEKU DASIndependent · IND7101.5%
- 6RAMCHANDRA BHANUJanata Party · JNP5111.1%
- 7DEORAJ RAMICJ · ICJ4560.9%
- 8HARICHAND BAITHAIndependent · IND3030.6%
- 9RAMSWARUP PASWANIndependent · IND1250.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +54.6%
- BJP share
- 16.8% → 47.7%
- INC share
- 63.1% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- — → —