Constituency
95. Ambikapur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
MP-AMBIKAPUR
INC 71.1%won by 56.1%BJP 15.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 60.3% to 56.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.2% between them, down from 96.6% — the field split more ways.
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
38,314
Margin
21,492
56.09%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1MADAN GOPALIndian National Congress · INC27,25571.1%
- 2BHUNESHWAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,76315.0%
- 3PIYAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI4,20811.0%
- 4DEONARAYANIndependent · IND4621.2%
- 5SUMER SINGHLKD · LKD3140.8%
- 6MADHAW RAOIndependent · IND3120.8%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −4.3%
- INC share
- 78.5% → 71.1%
- BJP share
- 18.1% → 15.0%
- Turnout
- — → —