Constituency
300. Kharasawan
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-KHARASAWAN
IND 47.5%won by 31.8%INC 15.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 31.8%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 13.2% to 47.5% of the vote here (+34.3%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 15.8% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 63.3% of the vote between them, up from 42.2% — 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
38,238
Margin
12,150
31.77%
Candidates
11 contested · winner IND- 1VIJAY SINGH SOYIndependent · IND18,18247.5%
- 2BANMALI SINGH MUNDAIndian National Congress · INC6,03215.8%
- 3LAKSHMANI RAM MANJHILKD · LKD4,67212.2%
- 4DEVILAL MATISOYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,5216.6%
- 5MAHENDRA LAL SOYIndependent · IND2,4446.4%
- 6CHANDU KIUCommunist Party of India · CPI1,2713.3%
- 7VISHNU SINGH MUNDAIndependent · IND1,0022.6%
- 8MEWA LAL HONGAHAJanata Party · JNP7221.9%
- 9GOMIA MUNDAIndependent · IND5071.3%
- 10VIJAY SINGH BANARAIndependent · IND4871.3%
- 11BALRAM SHANKHIndependent · IND3981.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +18.5%
- IND share
- 13.2% → 47.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 15.8%
- Turnout
- — → —