Constituency
71. Deotalab
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
MP-DEOTALAB
INC 40.5%won by 8.5%JNP 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.1% to 8.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from INCU (INCU) to Janata Party (JNP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.6% of the vote between them, up from 65.3% — 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
30,412
Margin
2,583
8.49%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BINDRAIndian National Congress · INC12,32440.5%
- 2CHHOTE LALJanata Party · JNP9,74132.0%
- 3ARJUN SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,18917.1%
- 4JAIKARANLKD · LKD2,2047.2%
- 5BABU LALIndependent · IND9543.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −26.3%
- INC share
- 40.7% → 40.5%
- JNP share
- 5.9% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —