Constituency
178. Lanji
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
MP-LANJI
INC 53.0%won by 11.7%BJP 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.7% to 11.7%.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 41.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.2% of the vote between them, up from 84.2% — 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
35,299
Margin
4,125
11.69%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1YASHWANTRAO BALARAM KHONGLIndian National Congress · INC18,69753.0%
- 2BASANTRAO KRISHNARAOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,57241.3%
- 3S. R. SILAREJNPSC · JNPSC2,0305.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −33.7%
- INC share
- 45.4% → 53.0%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- — → —