Constituency
59. Maihar
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
MP-MAIHAR
INC 44.6%won by 1.2%BJP 43.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 23.8% to 44.6% of the vote here (+20.7%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 43.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.0% of the vote between them, up from 77.6% — 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
53,572
Margin
632
1.18%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1VIJAY NARAYANIndian National Congress · INC23,87544.6%
- 2GAYARAM SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP23,24343.4%
- 3RAM NARESHIndependent · IND2,6344.9%
- 4NARAYAN SINGHJNPSC · JNPSC2,0953.9%
- 5RAMA SHANKAR TRIPATHIJNPSR · JNPSR9841.8%
- 6SURENDRA SINGHINCU · INCU7411.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −22.7%
- INC share
- 23.8% → 44.6%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 43.4%
- Turnout
- — → —