Constituency
270. Barkatha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-BARKATHA
INC 38.5%won by 6.6%CPI 31.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.8% to 38.5% of the vote here (+8.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 70.4% of the vote between them, up from 62.0% — 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
71,632
Margin
4,758
6.64%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1LAMBODAR PATHAKIndian National Congress · INC27,60938.5%
- 2BHUNESHWAR PRASAD MEHTACommunist Party of India · CPI22,85131.9%
- 3KHAGENDRA PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,80819.3%
- 4RAJENDRA PRASAD YADAVLKD · LKD5,8018.1%
- 5GAJADHAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,0781.5%
- 6KAILASH CHANDRA MAHTOIndependent · IND4850.7%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +9.1%
- INC share
- 29.8% → 38.5%
- CPI share
- 32.2% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- — → —