Constituency
152. Bahraich
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
UP-BAHRAICH
INC 43.3%won by 25.2%BJP 18.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 25.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.4% between them, down from 81.8% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered5 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
46,170
Margin
11,654
25.24%
Candidates
14 contested · winner INC- 1MAHARAN NATH KAULIndian National Congress · INC19,99043.3%
- 2HARI NARAIN ALIAS RAJJOO BHAIYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,33618.1%
- 3RADHEY SHYAM KHANNAJanata Party · JNP6,63414.4%
- 4KAMAR AHMAD ANSARICommunist Party of India · CPI3,0536.6%
- 5ANWAR AZIZLKD · LKD2,9036.3%
- 6RAFIQ AHMADIndependent · IND1,4703.2%
- 7NAND KUMARDDP · DDP1,0042.2%
- 8YOGESH CHANDRAIndependent · IND9172.0%
- 9SATTARIndependent · IND6681.4%
- 10NARESH KUMARIndependent · IND3460.7%
- 11SURESH SHARMAIndependent · IND3060.7%
- 12LUKMANIndependent · IND2980.6%
- 13RUSTAM ALI SAIDA BHARTIYAIndependent · IND1410.3%
- 14MOBIN AHMADIndependent · IND1040.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +26.0%
- INC share
- 40.6% → 43.3%
- BJP share
- 41.3% → 18.1%
- Turnout
- — → —