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306. Ranchi

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1985

BR-RANCHI

INC 42.8%won by 14.3%BJP 28.5%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.4% to 14.3%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.3% of the vote between them, up from 58.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
45,128
Margin
6,437
14.26%

Candidates

22 contested · winner INC
  1. 1JAI PRAKASH GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC19,30942.8%
  2. 2NANI GOPAL MITRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,87228.5%
  3. 3BADEHAN PRASAD AZADICJ · ICJ3,3577.4%
  4. 4ABDUL QAUM ABDALICommunist Party of India · CPI2,4155.4%
  5. 5SAFIQ ALAMIndependent · IND1,8884.2%
  6. 6MEWA RAM CHURASIALKD · LKD1,7613.9%
  7. 7SITESH SHARMAIndependent · IND9522.1%
  8. 8USHA SAXSENAJanata Party · JNP6571.5%
  9. 9KRISTOPHER MINJIndependent · IND4791.1%
  10. 10GOKUL CHANDIndependent · IND3220.7%
  11. 11MADHUSUDAN TRIPATHIIndependent · IND2890.6%
  12. 12MANAV KUMAR GHOSH DASTIDARJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2670.6%
  13. 13UDAY SINGH YADAVICS · ICS1230.3%
  14. 14AMBIKA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND1130.3%
  15. 15JANARDAN PRASADIndependent · IND740.2%
  16. 16KRISHAN KUMAR SUREKAIndependent · IND590.1%
  17. 17SHEV PRASAD SAHUIndependent · IND440.1%
  18. 18AWADESH KUMAR CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND370.1%
  19. 19TARKESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND340.1%
  20. 20MD. MONIBU RAHMANIndependent · IND340.1%
  21. 21ANADI BRAHMIndependent · IND260.1%
  22. 22N. P. VERGISIndependent · IND160.0%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–BJP swing
+3.9%
INC share
34.2% → 42.8%
BJP share
23.8% → 28.5%
Turnout
— → —
305. Khijri307. Hatia
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