Constituency
54. Bhojipura
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
UP-BHOJIPURA
INC 25.1%won by 5.2%IND 19.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.1% to 5.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 45.0% between them, down from 57.7% — 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
72,883
Margin
3,768
5.17%
Candidates
21 contested · winner INC- 1NARENDRA PAL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC18,27925.1%
- 2HAMEED RAZA KHANIndependent · IND14,51119.9%
- 3SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,92116.4%
- 4ABDUL KADIRIndependent · IND9,96213.7%
- 5P. L. SHARMACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,5336.2%
- 6SURAJ PAL SINGHIndependent · IND3,4094.7%
- 7MOHAN LALIndependent · IND2,3353.2%
- 8GAURI PRASADIndependent · IND1,0481.4%
- 9BRIJ LALIndependent · IND8731.2%
- 10RAJ KUMARIndependent · IND8151.1%
- 11DINA NATH MIDHAJanata Party · JNP7021.0%
- 12NATHU LALICJ · ICJ6770.9%
- 13RAJ KUMAR GOSWAMIIndependent · IND6460.9%
- 14MAINA RAMIndependent · IND6440.9%
- 15PURAN LAL PATHAKIndependent · IND6370.9%
- 16DATTA RAMDDP · DDP5510.8%
- 17DINESH PAL SINGHIndependent · IND3390.5%
- 18GULAM SINGHIndependent · IND3250.4%
- 19BHAGWAN SWARUP GUPTAIndependent · IND3010.4%
- 20ISHAR KHANIndependent · IND2050.3%
- 21SURESH CHAND GUPTAIndependent · IND1700.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −20.1%
- INC share
- 36.9% → 25.1%
- IND share
- 11.7% → 19.9%
- Turnout
- — → —