Constituency
123. Digboi
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1985
AS-DIGBOI
INC 58.5%won by 32.2%IND 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 51.4% to 32.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.8% between them, down from 93.1% — the field split more ways.
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
46,872
Margin
15,108
32.23%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1RAMESWAR DHANOWARIndian National Congress · INC27,43858.5%
- 2DAYANAND DOWERAIndependent · IND12,33026.3%
- 3RAFIK UDDIN CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND4,4089.4%
- 4SANKARLAL SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,4403.1%
- 5MALIA TANTIICS · ICS6241.3%
- 6SUKHAMOY DEYJanata Party · JNP3760.8%
- 7ATO CHAWARIAIndependent · IND2560.5%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −34.3%
- INC share
- 72.2% → 58.5%
- IND share
- 5.7% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —