Constituency
35. Dharavi
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1985
MH-DHARAVI
INC 49.3%won by 16.5%ICS 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.2% to 16.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 32.8% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.1% of the vote between them, up from 74.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
73,802
Margin
12,173
16.49%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1EKNATH M. GAIKWADIndian National Congress · INC36,39649.3%
- 2VASANT MOREICS · ICS24,22332.8%
- 3SATYENDRA MORECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,6126.2%
- 4NARAYAN GENU KADAMIndependent · IND4,5416.2%
- 5NANASAHEB WAGHMAREIndependent · IND3,8285.2%
- 6JADHAV HARI PUNJAJIIndependent · IND2020.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–ICS swing
- −36.5%
- INC share
- 53.0% → 49.3%
- ICS share
- 0.0% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- — → —