Constituency
185. Ambad
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1985
MH-AMBAD
INC 48.3%won by 14.8%JNP 33.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.9% to 14.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from INCU (INCU) to Janata Party (JNP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.9% between them, down from 90.2% — 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
65,157
Margin
9,645
14.80%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1VILAS VITHALRAO KHARATIndian National Congress · INC31,49548.3%
- 2ANKUSH BHALEKARJanata Party · JNP21,85033.5%
- 3NILWARN BHALCHANDRA KULKARNIIndependent · IND7,10810.9%
- 4RAUT GANGARAM GOVINDRAOCommunist Party of India · CPI2,0213.1%
- 5BHAURAO MALHARI SALVEIndependent · IND1,3112.0%
- 6HIDAYAT KHAN SULTANKHANIndependent · IND9741.5%
- 7SYED KHALEEL SYED PAPAMIYAIndependent · IND3980.6%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −32.1%
- INC share
- 53.5% → 48.3%
- JNP share
- 6.6% → 33.5%
- Turnout
- — → —