Constituency
40. Santacruz
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1985
MH-SANTACRUZ
INC 46.3%won by 23.0%BJP 23.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.7% to 23.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.7% between them, down from 75.8% — 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
74,818
Margin
17,171
22.95%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1C. D. OMMACHENIndian National Congress · INC34,66846.3%
- 2ABHIRAM SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,49723.4%
- 3NANDKISHOR DHAKU PALAVIndependent · IND9,13312.2%
- 4BASIR AHMAD RAFIKIndependent · IND8,29711.1%
- 5SANDESH MANDIYALIndependent · IND4,2445.7%
- 6RIYATULHA ABDULA KHANIndependent · IND3950.5%
- 7LALMAN DHARIYAIndependent · IND2710.4%
- 8VIJAY JAGMOHAN SHETHIndependent · IND2150.3%
- 9TADVI SULEMANKHAN KASAMKHANIndependent · IND980.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −1.8%
- INC share
- 50.3% → 46.3%
- BJP share
- 25.5% → 23.4%
- Turnout
- — → —