Constituency
27. Basantpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1990
BR-BASANTPUR
INC 41.4%won by 8.9%BJP 32.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.2% to 8.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.9% between them, down from 91.1% — 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
1,04,977
Margin
9,348
8.90%
Candidates
20 contested · winner INC- 1MANIK CHANDER RAIIndian National Congress · INC43,48141.4%
- 2SATYA DEV PRASAD SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP34,13332.5%
- 3AFZAL AHMADJanata Dal · JD18,39217.5%
- 4BACHCHAN PARBHAKARCommunist Party of India · CPI3,1433.0%
- 5MADAN MOHANLkd (B) · LKDB1,3941.3%
- 6RAMANAND YADAVJanata Party · JNP1,3041.2%
- 7RAMASHRYA MANJHIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7180.7%
- 8SARAVJIT OJHABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5990.6%
- 9KOMESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND5630.5%
- 10JAI GOVIND SAHAISOPL · SOPL3680.4%
- 11SIRSU NARAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND1760.2%
- 12GANESH DATT SAHIIndependent · IND1270.1%
- 13B.K. SINGH CHAUHANIndependent · IND1260.1%
- 14SALAUDDIN HAIP · IP1110.1%
- 15RAMAYAN PRASADDDP · DDP1040.1%
- 16BRAJ KISHOR MISHRAIndependent · IND1030.1%
- 17MADHUSUDAN MISHRAIndependent · IND410.0%
- 18SUNIL KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND340.0%
- 19SUSHILA DEVIIndependent · IND330.0%
- 20HARENDER NA. PRASADIndependent · IND270.0%
Since 1985
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −2.3%
- INC share
- 51.2% → 41.4%
- BJP share
- 40.0% → 32.5%
- Turnout
- — → —