Constituency
11. Dholai
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1985
AS-DHOLAI
INC 35.7%won by 0.7%IND 35.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.2% to 0.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 407 votes (0.71%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
57,187
Margin
407
0.71%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1DIGENDRA PURKAYASTHAIndian National Congress · INC20,41035.7%
- 2KAMAKHYA PRASAD MALAHOIndependent · IND20,00335.0%
- 3KSH MOHON DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,07912.4%
- 4SISIR RANJAN DASIndependent · IND4,4937.9%
- 5SAJAL KANTI CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND2,6714.7%
- 6MONORANJAN RABIDASLKD · LKD1,2692.2%
- 7SASHI MOHAN DASIndependent · IND7511.3%
- 8KUMARESH DASIndependent · IND5110.9%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −28.5%
- INC share
- 51.5% → 35.7%
- IND share
- 22.3% → 35.0%
- Turnout
- — → —