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Constituency

162. Poraiyahat

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1990

BR-PORAIYAHAT

JMM 39.4%won by 16.9%BJP 22.5%

What changed here

Derived

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.8% to 16.9%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.9% between them, down from 83.0% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,01,491
Margin
17,106
16.85%

Since 1985

Derived
Winner then
JMM
Winner now
JMM
JMMBJP swing
−21.4%
JMM share
43.4% 39.4%
BJP share
5.2% 22.5%
Turnout