Constituency
87. Manendragarh
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
MP-MANENDRAGARH
INC 36.2%won by 0.4%BJP 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.7% to 0.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 173 votes (0.44%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
38,949
Margin
173
0.44%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1VIJOY SINGHIndian National Congress · INC14,09136.2%
- 2CHANDRA PRATAP SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,91835.7%
- 3MADAN SINGHJanata Party · JNP7,43419.1%
- 4MADHAW RAOIndependent · IND1,3293.4%
- 5MEWLAL SINGHIndependent · IND1,1422.9%
- 6VIJAY KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,0352.7%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −28.2%
- INC share
- 52.1% → 36.2%
- BJP share
- 23.4% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- — → —