Constituency
23. Opera House
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1985
MH-OPERA-HOUSE
INC 46.0%won by 18.2%IND 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 18.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.8% to 46.0% of the vote here (+8.2%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 27.8% — it polled just 0.9% in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.8% between them, down from 99.1% — 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
49,873
Margin
9,084
18.21%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1CHANDRASHEKHAR PRABHUIndian National Congress · INC22,93446.0%
- 2GAJANAN DAMODAR VARTAKIndependent · IND13,85027.8%
- 3KIRIT SOMAIYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,91023.9%
- 4SHANTARAM S. BRIDIndependent · IND8691.7%
- 5KALE HEMANT SHANKARIndependent · IND1350.3%
- 6AVHAD SHIVAJI RAMACHANDRAIndependent · IND1090.2%
- 7BALIRAM D YADAVIndependent · IND660.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −18.7%
- INC share
- 37.8% → 46.0%
- IND share
- 0.9% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- — → —