1985 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Difference between revisions

1985 Bihar legislative assembly election
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324 seats to the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Chief Minister before election; Chandrashekhar Singh; INC(I)	Elected Chief Minister ; Bindeshwari Dubey; INC(I)

Revision as of 23:14, 11 December 2021

Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 1985 was held in 1985 to elect members to the Bihar Legislative Assembly.

Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Popular Vote	Percentage
Indian National Congress	323	196	9,558,562	39.30%
Lok Dal	261	46	3,573,173	14.69%
Bharatiya Janata Party	234	16	1,833,275	7.54%
Janata Party	229	13	1,754,705	7.21%
Communist Party of India	167	12	2,154,066	8.86%
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	57	9	443,822	1.82%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	44	1	392,375	1.61%
Indian Congress (Socialist)	59	1	160,159	0.66%
Socialist Unity Centre of India	1	1	17,890	0.07%
Independents	2804	29	4,349,057	17.88%
Total	4237	324	24,323,868

Source:^[1]

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