Constituency
274. Gandey
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-GANDEY
JMM 33.6%won by 7.3%BJP 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), which now leads by 7.3%.
- JMM vote shareJMM went from 10.1% to 33.6% of the vote here (+23.5%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 59.9% of the vote between them, up from 48.3% — 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
58,157
Margin
4,242
7.29%
Candidates
9 contested · winner JMM- 1SALKHAN SORENJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM19,55033.6%
- 2LAKSHMAN SWARNKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,30826.3%
- 3MD. ABU AKHTARIndian National Congress · INC9,98417.2%
- 4YAKUFCommunist Party of India · CPI8,80915.1%
- 5R.J.SINGHJanata Party · JNP1,1922.0%
- 6PURAN DASIndependent · IND1,1852.0%
- 7SATYA NAND SHARMALKD · LKD8771.5%
- 8MAHENDRA PRASAD VERMAIndependent · IND8761.5%
- 9NAWAL KISHORE MANDILWARIndependent · IND3760.6%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JMMflipped
- JMM–BJP swing
- +10.1%
- JMM share
- 10.1% → 33.6%
- BJP share
- 12.9% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —