Constituency
125. Chandrapur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
MP-CHANDRAPUR
INC 83.1%won by 74.5%IND 8.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 58.0% to 74.5%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 8.6% — it polled just 1.8% in 1977.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
40,716
Margin
30,342
74.52%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BHAWANI LALIndian National Congress · INC33,82883.1%
- 2MANIYA RAMIndependent · IND3,4868.6%
- 3MOHITRAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,4028.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −0.6%
- INC share
- 77.0% → 83.1%
- IND share
- 1.8% → 8.6%
- Turnout
- — → —