Constituency
312. Simdega
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-SIMDEGA
BJP 33.3%won by 7.2%INC 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.1% to 7.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.4% between them, down from 73.2% — 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
45,790
Margin
3,291
7.19%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1NIRMAL KUMAR BESRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,24833.3%
- 2ERNEST PURTYIndian National Congress · INC11,95726.1%
- 3MANGRET BILUNGIndependent · IND6,95215.2%
- 4STANISLAS KINDOIndependent · IND5,22111.4%
- 5JYOTI PRAKASH TIRKEYIndependent · IND2,7946.1%
- 6VICTOR EKKAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2,1594.7%
- 7BENJAMIN ORAONIndependent · IND9032.0%
- 8DEONIS MINJIndependent · IND3790.8%
- 9REMIS KUJURIndependent · IND1770.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −2.9%
- BJP share
- 41.7% → 33.3%
- INC share
- 31.6% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- — → —