Constituency
266. Barkagaon
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-BARKAGAON
CPI 42.0%won by 7.3%INC 34.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.3% to 7.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.7% of the vote between them, up from 54.3% — a tighter two-way 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
74,953
Margin
5,436
7.25%
Candidates
14 contested · winner CPI- 1RAMENDRA KUMARCommunist Party of India · CPI31,48142.0%
- 2RAM KUMAR OJHAIndian National Congress · INC26,04534.7%
- 3DHANESHWAR MAHTOJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM4,6336.2%
- 4RABINDRA KUMAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,3754.5%
- 5BANSHI CHAMARIndependent · IND2,9894.0%
- 6MIYA JAN MIANIndependent · IND1,8162.4%
- 7SHI CHANDRA PRASADLKD · LKD1,5792.1%
- 8SURENDRA PATHAKJanata Party · JNP7080.9%
- 9SUKH SARAG MAHATOIndependent · IND6840.9%
- 10RAM SUNDER RAMIndependent · IND5280.7%
- 11DEEP RAMIndependent · IND4940.7%
- 12SHUDAMA RAMIndependent · IND2440.3%
- 13RAM KRISHAN AGARWALIndependent · IND2290.3%
- 14R.P.CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND1480.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −17.1%
- CPI share
- 39.3% → 42.0%
- INC share
- 15.0% → 34.7%
- Turnout
- — → —