Constituency
1. Sawantwadi
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1985
MH-SAWANTWADI
INC 44.6%won by 6.2%JNP 38.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.0% to 6.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered3 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
56,338
Margin
3,518
6.24%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SHIVARAM SAWANT BHONSLEIndian National Congress · INC25,13544.6%
- 2JAYANAND MATHKARJanata Party · JNP21,61738.4%
- 3VASANT KESARKARIndependent · IND6,27611.1%
- 4VIJAY KERKARIndependent · IND1,7763.2%
- 5BALKRISHNA RAGHOBA SAWANTIndependent · IND1,5342.7%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −4.7%
- INC share
- 49.3% → 44.6%
- JNP share
- 38.4% → 38.4%
- Turnout
- — → —