Constituency
264. Chatra
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1990
BR-CHATRA
BJP 57.0%won by 39.6%INC 17.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.2% to 39.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.4% between them, down from 87.2% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
67,348
Margin
26,654
39.58%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1MAHENDRA PRASAD SINGH BHOGTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP38,37457.0%
- 2SHIV JAGAT RAMIndian National Congress · INC11,72017.4%
- 3SHANTU DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM10,84816.1%
- 4JHAMAN SINGHIPF · IPF3,2964.9%
- 5KAILASH RAMIndependent · IND1,4652.2%
- 6GARBUWA BHUIYANIndependent · IND5300.8%
- 7TELESHWAR PASWANDDP · DDP4780.7%
- 8KEDAR RAMIndependent · IND3780.6%
- 9FEKU DASBKUS · BKUS1930.3%
- 10PRAYAG PASWANIndependent · IND660.1%
Since 1985
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +31.3%
- BJP share
- 47.7% → 57.0%
- INC share
- 39.5% → 17.4%
- Turnout
- — → —