Constituency
48. Motihari
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-MOTIHARI
BJP 46.6%won by 14.4%CPI 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 14.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 0.0% to 46.6% of the vote here (+46.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.8% between them, down from 85.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.8% to 58.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,36,758
Turnout
58.0%
Valid votes
5,43,412
Margin
78,111
14.37%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1RADHA MOHAN SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,53,29246.6%
- 2KAMALA MISHRA MADHUKARCommunist Party of India · CPI1,75,18132.2%
- 3PRABHAVATI GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC1,04,48519.2%
- 4RAJ KISHOR BHAGATHDDP · DDP5,3171.0%
- 5VIJAY K. SINHAJNPJP · JNPJP2,8950.5%
- 6KESHAV KUMAR JHALkd (B) · LKDB1,2520.2%
- 7ASHUTHOSH PANDAYIndependent · IND5770.1%
- 8RAMCHANDRA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND4130.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–CPI swing
- +40.5%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 46.6%
- CPI share
- 26.1% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- 54.2% → 58.0%