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270. Barkatha

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1990

BR-BARKATHA

BJP 37.1%won by 6.7%CPI 30.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 6.7%.

  • BJP vote shareBJP went from 19.3% to 37.1% of the vote here (+17.8%).
  • Multi-cornered4 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
95,277
Margin
6,428
6.75%

Candidates

11 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1KHAGENDRA PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP35,30337.1%
  2. 2BHAWNESHWAR PD. MEHTACommunist Party of India · CPI28,87530.3%
  3. 3ASHOK KUMAR DEOIndian National Congress · INC12,58413.2%
  4. 4RAJENDRA PD. YADAVJanata Dal · JD8,5018.9%
  5. 5MANIR AHMADJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM4,0124.2%
  6. 6CHITRANJAN YADAVIndependent · IND2,2642.4%
  7. 7MANGAN PD. YADAVDDP · DDP1,4681.5%
  8. 8RAM KISHORE MEHTAJan Kalyan Party · JKP7580.8%
  9. 9GAJANAND SINGHBKUS · BKUS6110.6%
  10. 10SARIPAL TIWARIJanata Party · JNP6050.6%
  11. 11BIBHUTI YADAVIndependent · IND2960.3%

Since 1985

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–CPI swing
+19.4%
BJP share
19.3% → 37.1%
CPI share
31.9% → 30.3%
Turnout
— → —
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