Constituency
98. Lohardaga
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-LOHARDAGA
INC 40.2%won by 10.6%BJP 29.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.7% to 10.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.8% between them, down from 80.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.8% to 44.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,25,417
Turnout
44.7%
Valid votes
3,69,193
Margin
39,072
10.58%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1SUMATI ORAONIndian National Congress · INC1,48,32040.2%
- 2LALIT ORAONBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,09,24829.6%
- 3KARAMCHAND BHAGATJanata Dal · JD69,16918.7%
- 4SODHNU BHAGATJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM17,6514.8%
- 5SAMUEL HOROJKD · JKD8,9252.4%
- 6BIRSA ORAONDDP · DDP6,0281.6%
- 7BANDHNA ORAONIndependent · IND4,6551.3%
- 8KRISHNA BANGE ORAONIndependent · IND1,6590.4%
- 9SHANCHARWA MUNDAIndependent · IND1,3510.4%
- 10BIRBAL BHAGATIndependent · IND1,2020.3%
- 11RANSU ORAONIndependent · IND9850.3%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −28.1%
- INC share
- 59.6% → 40.2%
- BJP share
- 20.9% → 29.6%
- Turnout
- 38.9% → 44.7%