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171. Sultanganj

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1990

BR-SULTANGANJ

JD 39.4%won by 9.4%INC 30.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Dal (JD), which now leads by 9.4%.

  • JD vote shareJD went from 0.0% to 39.4% of the vote here (+39.4%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 69.4% of the vote between them, up from 63.7% — a tighter two-way contest.

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
97,924
Margin
9,246
9.44%

Candidates

16 contested · winner JD
  1. 1FANINDRA CHOUDHARYJanata Dal · JD38,59339.4%
  2. 2AMBIKA PRASADIndian National Congress · INC29,34730.0%
  3. 3BHAJ NARAYAN DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,25512.5%
  4. 4SARANGDHAR PASWANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,8127.0%
  5. 5RAGHUNANDAN MANJHIIndependent · IND2,2122.3%
  6. 6SARSWATI KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,8581.9%
  7. 7ARBINDA KUMAR ARAYAJanata Party · JNP1,4281.5%
  8. 8SIKANDAR PARSADIndependent · IND1,3341.4%
  9. 9BRAHAMDEO CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND1,0061.0%
  10. 10JIGHU PASWANIndependent · IND7460.8%
  11. 11RAMSAROOP PASWANPBI · PBI7290.7%
  12. 12GRABHU DASLkd (B) · LKDB5830.6%
  13. 13SURENDRA RAJAKIndependent · IND4520.5%
  14. 14BHAGWAN DASBKUS · BKUS3080.3%
  15. 15SURESH PRASAD RAJAKIndependent · IND1810.2%
  16. 16BISHANDEO HARIHJANIndependent · IND800.1%

Since 1985

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
JDflipped
JD–INC swing
+48.1%
JD share
0.0% → 39.4%
INC share
38.7% → 30.0%
Turnout
— → —
170. Bihpur172. Amarpur
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