Constituency
162. Durg City
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
MP-DURG-CITY
INC 66.7%won by 36.9%BJP 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.6% to 36.9%.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 29.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.6% of the vote between them, up from 90.5% — 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
55,811
Margin
20,582
36.88%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MOTILAL VORAIndian National Congress · INC37,24866.7%
- 2MUKHTIYAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,66629.9%
- 3MAHESH SHARMAJNPSC · JNPSC1,5452.8%
- 4RAM YAGYA MISHRAJanata Party · JNP2100.4%
- 5GAJADHAR PRASAD RAJAKIndependent · IND1420.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −17.7%
- INC share
- 54.5% → 66.7%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —