Constituency
289. Potka
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-POTKA
INC 32.8%won by 14.2%JMM 18.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.6% to 32.8% of the vote here (+6.2%).
- New challengerJharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished second with 18.7% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.5% between them, down from 62.0% — the field split more ways.
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
42,446
Margin
6,007
14.15%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1SONATAN SARDARIndian National Congress · INC13,93732.8%
- 2HARI RAM SARDARJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM7,93018.7%
- 3ASTIK SARDARCommunist Party of India · CPI5,98814.1%
- 4KUMAR KRISHNA MURMUIndependent · IND5,12712.1%
- 5MEGH LAL TUDUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,4108.0%
- 6DHANI RAM TUDUIndependent · IND3,0667.2%
- 7KUWAR CHANDRA MARDIJanata Party · JNP1,2933.0%
- 8PHOOLMANI PURTYIndependent · IND6271.5%
- 9BRIHAT MAJHIIndependent · IND5421.3%
- 10SANGRAI MARDIIndependent · IND5261.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JMM swing
- −12.5%
- INC share
- 26.6% → 32.8%
- JMM share
- 0.0% → 18.7%
- Turnout
- — → —