Constituency
76. Dindori
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1985
MH-DINDORI
JNP 55.6%won by 19.0%INC 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.3% to 19.0%.
- 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
66,232
Margin
12,559
18.96%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JNP- 1HARISHANKAR MAHALEJanata Party · JNP36,85155.6%
- 2CHAVAN HARISCHANDRA DEORAMIndian National Congress · INC24,29236.7%
- 3KARATE DATTATRAY BALAIndependent · IND3,5125.3%
- 4RAMCHANDRA PUNJA MAHALEIndependent · IND1,5772.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–INC swing
- −7.4%
- JNP share
- 58.4% → 55.6%
- INC share
- 32.0% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- — → —