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40. Surkhi

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Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985

MP-SURKHI

INC 46.3%won by 17.0%LKD 29.3%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.8% to 17.0%.

  • New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 29.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
46,808
Margin
7,954
16.99%

Candidates

8 contested · winner INC
  1. 1VITTHAL BHAI PATELIndian National Congress · INC21,65946.3%
  2. 2LAXMINARAYAN YADAVLKD · LKD13,70529.3%
  3. 3RAMESHWAR PRASAD DUBEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,63518.4%
  4. 4GOVIND PRASAD RAM KRISHANJanata Party · JNP7751.7%
  5. 5KALICHARANIndependent · IND6971.5%
  6. 6BABU LALIndependent · IND6271.3%
  7. 7RAJARAM SARAFIndependent · IND4641.0%
  8. 8GOVIND PRASADIndependent · IND2460.5%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–LKD swing
−31.1%
INC share
48.1% → 46.3%
LKD share
0.0% → 29.3%
Turnout
— → —
39. Sagar41. Rehli
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