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Daltonganj

Name: Daltonganj
Address: IN

Bihar Vidhan Sabha Election 1985

143,921

Electors

57,492

Votes polled

39.95%

Turnout

4,053

Margin

Winner

Ishwar Chandra Pandey

Male

Rank	Candidate	Party	Total	Share
1	Ishwar Chandra Pandey Won Male	INC	22,664	39.42%
2	Inder Singh Namdhari Male	BJP	18,611	32.37%
3	Shailendra Kumar Male	CPI	4,628	8.05%
4	Puran Chand Male	LKD	3,556	6.19%
5	Sripati Singh Male	JnP	2,077	3.61%
6	Santanu Sukla Male	IND	1,923	3.34%
7	Kewal Topo Male	IND	1,411	2.45%
8	Baleshwar Ram Male	IND	603	1.05%
9	Kameshwar Tiwari Male	IND	440	0.77%
10	Ashok Kumar Sinha Male	IND	419	0.73%
11	Shyam Narayan Singh Male	IND	284	0.49%
12	Shambhu Sharan Prasad Male	IND	234	0.41%
13	Mohan Yadav Male	IND	149	0.26%
14	Ramnareshram Male	IND	146	0.25%
15	Somnath Pandey Male	IND	143	0.25%
16	Yudhisthir Tiwari Male	IND	108	0.19%
17	Mushan Sukla Male	IND	96	0.17%

Overall vote % (Pie)

EVM voters — male vs female

Gender-wise turnout is not available for this constituency.

Year	Winner	Vote share	Runner-up	Vote share
2000	Inder Singh Namdhari Male JD(U)	40.42%	Anil Kumar Chaurasiya Male RJD	24.98%
1995	Inder Singh Namdhari Male JD	37.89%	Surachmani Singh Male BJP	18.95%
1990	Inder Singh Namdhari Male BJP	53.48%	Ishwar Chandra Pandey Male INC	17.23%
1985	Ishwar Chandra Pandey Male INC	39.42%	Inder Singh Namdhari Male BJP	32.37%
1980	Inder Singh Namdhari Male BJP	41.59%	Dinanath Tewary Male INC(I)	32.99%
1977	Puran Chand Male JnP	54.44%	Dinanath Tiwary Male INC	20.49%
1969	Puran Chand Male SSP	41.40%	Inder Singh Male BJS	27.39%
1967	P. Chand Male SSP	50.46%	I. Singh Male BJS	19.37%
1962	Sachidanand Tripathy Male SWA	37.07%	Umeshwari Charan Male INC	28.71%
1957	Umeshwari Charan Male PSP	30.97%	Rajeshwar Prasad Agarwal Male JHP	29.27%
1951	Amiya Kumar Gosh Male INC	34.96%	Subash Singh Male JHP	16.69%