EElectionLens
Constituency

53. Damoh

Community mirror

Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985

MP-DAMOH

INC 48.4%won by 0.2%BJP 48.2%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.1% to 0.2%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 76.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 92 votes (0.17%) — among the closest results anywhere.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
55,657
Margin
92
0.17%

Candidates

9 contested · winner INC
  1. 1MUKESH NAYAKIndian National Congress · INC26,94548.4%
  2. 2JAYANT KUMAR MALAIYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP26,85348.2%
  3. 3RAMESHWARIndependent · IND5200.9%
  4. 4TARACHAND BHADORIAIndependent · IND3710.7%
  5. 5RAM SINGHIndependent · IND2630.5%
  6. 6MOHD. NAFISIndependent · IND2200.4%
  7. 7RAMDAS RAIIndependent · IND2020.4%
  8. 8NARAYAN PRASADIndependent · IND1530.3%
  9. 9RAMPRASADIndependent · IND1300.2%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–BJP swing
−21.0%
INC share
48.8% → 48.4%
BJP share
27.7% → 48.2%
Turnout
— → —
52. Nohata54. Patharia
Back to the MP Assembly 1985 explorer