Constituency
62. Chitrakoot
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
MP-CHITRAKOOT
INC 42.6%won by 2.4%JNP 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.6% to 2.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered4 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
48,426
Margin
1,142
2.36%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1RAMCHANDRA BAJPAYEEIndian National Congress · INC20,60942.6%
- 2RAMANAND SINGHJanata Party · JNP19,46740.2%
- 3DASHMAT SINGHLKD · LKD3,6317.5%
- 4RAGHUWAR SHARAN SHASTRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,9376.1%
- 5NARSINGH NARAYANIndependent · IND7311.5%
- 6SAROJ KOLIndependent · IND4971.0%
- 7KAMTA PRASAD SHARMAIndependent · IND3010.6%
- 8SATYENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND2530.5%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −5.3%
- INC share
- 47.2% → 42.6%
- JNP share
- 39.5% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- — → —