Constituency
71. Rajmahal
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-RAJMAHAL
INC 50.1%won by 25.5%JMM 24.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: INCI (INCI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 25.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 50.1% of the vote here (+50.1%).
- New challengerJharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished second with 24.5% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.6% of the vote between them, up from 62.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 9.3% to 44.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,92,614
Turnout
44.6%
Valid votes
3,08,962
Margin
78,856
25.52%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1SETH HEMBROMIndian National Congress · INC1,54,67650.1%
- 2SIMON MARANDIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM75,82024.5%
- 3JYOTIN SORENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM39,07412.6%
- 4MANINDRA HANSDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP25,4258.2%
- 5PAUL HANSDAJanata Party · JNP5,6681.8%
- 6JOSEPH MURMUIndependent · IND2,4150.8%
- 7GUMDI SORENIndependent · IND2,4030.8%
- 8ANAND KUMAR MURMUIndependent · IND1,4840.5%
- 9PAIRAS HANSDAIndependent · IND1,2210.4%
- 10ALIYAS MURMUIndependent · IND7760.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INCI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JMM swing
- +25.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 50.1%
- JMM share
- 0.0% → 24.5%
- Turnout
- 35.3% → 44.6%