Constituency
168. Dondi Lohara
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
MP-DONDI-LOHARA
INC 53.6%won by 24.4%IND 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.4% to 24.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.9% between them, down from 93.4% — 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
47,611
Margin
11,618
24.40%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1JHUMAKLAL BHENDIAIndian National Congress · INC25,54153.6%
- 2JHANAKIndependent · IND13,92329.2%
- 3THAKUR CHAMRU RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI4,2068.8%
- 4RAMDASIYA BAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,8696.0%
- 5LAKHANLAL MANDAVIIndependent · IND1,0722.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −32.4%
- INC share
- 63.4% → 53.6%
- IND share
- 6.6% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —