Constituency
316. Latehar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-LATEHAR
INC 35.6%won by 5.7%BJP 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.4% to 5.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.6% between them, down from 91.8% — 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
23,096
Margin
1,312
5.68%
Candidates
18 contested · winner INC- 1HARIDARSHAN RAMIndian National Congress · INC8,23335.6%
- 2RAMDEO RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,92130.0%
- 3K.K.PRIYADARSHNIIndependent · IND2,1449.3%
- 4LUNKA GANJHUIndependent · IND1,4846.4%
- 5RITA DEVIIndependent · IND1,2725.5%
- 6GOLAB CHAND RAMIndependent · IND4101.8%
- 7RAM BACHAN RAMIndependent · IND3891.7%
- 8JORAWAR RAMLKD · LKD3811.6%
- 9KANHAI RAMIndependent · IND3451.5%
- 10MAHABIR PAHANIndependent · IND3421.5%
- 11LALJI RAMIndependent · IND2961.3%
- 12BIJOY KUMARIndependent · IND2661.2%
- 13RAM LAGAN BHAGATIndependent · IND2461.1%
- 14BIGU RAMIndependent · IND1110.5%
- 15RAM NARAIN AZADIndependent · IND950.4%
- 16AYODHAYA RAJAKIndependent · IND740.3%
- 17BAIJNATH RAMIndependent · IND460.2%
- 18ANIL KUMAR HEMAITIndependent · IND410.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −1.7%
- INC share
- 49.6% → 35.6%
- BJP share
- 42.2% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —