Constituency
270. Barkatha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1995
BR-BARKATHA
BJP 32.6%won by 15.8%CPI 16.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.7% to 15.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.5% between them, down from 67.4% — 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
1,14,883
Margin
18,124
15.78%
Candidates
20 contested · winner BJP- 1KHAGENDRA PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP37,48432.6%
- 2DIGMBAR KUMAR MEHATACommunist Party of India · CPI19,36016.9%
- 3BALESHWAR PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC14,41512.5%
- 4TUKLAL NAYAKCSPJSD · CSPJSD8,2627.2%
- 5RAM KISHORE MEHTAJMMM · JMMM7,2956.3%
- 6VANSHIDHAR YADAVIndependent · IND6,4425.6%
- 7BATESHWAR PRASAD MEHTASamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP4,7634.1%
- 8RAMESHWAR RAMJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM3,4953.0%
- 9DASRATH YADAVIndependent · IND3,4133.0%
- 10FULESHWAR RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,2072.8%
- 11RAJENDRA PD. YADAVIndependent · IND1,5361.3%
- 12PREMESHWAR KR. SINGHIndependent · IND1,1961.0%
- 13BANBARI CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND8060.7%
- 14SATYA NARAYAN YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP6830.6%
- 15ASMAT ALIIndependent · IND6200.5%
- 16JAGDISH RAMIndependent · IND5630.5%
- 17ARJUN GOSAINIndependent · IND5130.4%
- 18BHARAT DEO SINGH YADAVIndependent · IND3730.3%
- 19YOGESHWAR YADAVIndependent · IND2640.2%
- 20RAM KRISHNA AGRAWALIndependent · IND1930.2%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–CPI swing
- +9.0%
- BJP share
- 37.1% → 32.6%
- CPI share
- 30.3% → 16.9%
- Turnout
- — → —