Constituency
142. Katihar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1995
BR-KATIHAR
BJP 37.5%won by 8.1%JD 29.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 13.7% to 37.5% of the vote here (+23.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.9% between them, down from 83.4% — 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
1,21,353
Margin
9,786
8.06%
Candidates
23 contested · winner BJP- 1JAGBANDHU ADHIKARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP45,47337.5%
- 2RAM PRAKASH MAHTOJanata Dal · JD35,68729.4%
- 3BHAI SAMSUDDINSamajwadi Party · SP18,13914.9%
- 4BANGALI MAHTOIndian National Congress · INC8,0536.6%
- 5RADHA URAONIndependent · IND5,0544.2%
- 6SHIV PD. TANTIABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6872.2%
- 7RANA RAJENDRABhartiya Panchsheel Party · BPP1,3861.1%
- 8MAHAMMAD HAFIZUDDINSJPR · SJPR9830.8%
- 9SHYAM SUNDAR PRASADSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP7270.6%
- 10RAJENDRA PANDEYIndependent · IND6610.5%
- 11GANESH SHARMAIndependent · IND4980.4%
- 12MANOJ KUMARIndependent · IND4070.3%
- 13MOH. KAMALIndependent · IND2500.2%
- 14RAMDHARI PRASADIndependent · IND2120.2%
- 15RAJIV KUMAR KARNShiv Sena · SHS2040.2%
- 16YUGAL KISHOR VERMAIndependent · IND1770.1%
- 17SHIVRAJ YADAVIndependent · IND1610.1%
- 18BIRA RAMIndependent · IND1530.1%
- 19AHMAD MAJOR KAJI SAIYAD JAMALUDINIndependent · IND1510.1%
- 20NARAD CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND1020.1%
- 21SUSHIL BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND890.1%
- 22SALIM KHANIndependent · IND630.1%
- 23SUDIN MANDALIndependent · IND360.0%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–JD swing
- +64.2%
- BJP share
- 13.7% → 37.5%
- JD share
- 69.8% → 29.4%
- Turnout
- — → —