Constituency
64. Balia
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-BALIA
CPI 63.4%won by 31.5%INC 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 31.5%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 25.4% to 63.4% of the vote here (+38.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.2% of the vote between them, up from 76.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.1% to 56.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,06,074
Turnout
56.5%
Valid votes
5,11,934
Margin
1,61,449
31.54%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1SURYANARAYAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI3,24,35363.4%
- 2CHANDRA BHATU DEVIIndian National Congress · INC1,62,90431.8%
- 3MADHU SUDAN PASWANLkd (B) · LKDB7,9341.5%
- 4MD. JAMALUDDINIndependent · IND3,9650.8%
- 5ANGAD SINGHDDP · DDP3,6500.7%
- 6SIYA RAM MAHTO PRABHANJAUIndependent · IND3,2570.6%
- 7JATASHANKAR JHAIndependent · IND3,0760.6%
- 8KEDAR NATH PODDARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,7950.5%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +57.3%
- CPI share
- 25.4% → 63.4%
- INC share
- 51.1% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- 62.6% → 56.5%