Constituency
103. Raigarh
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
MP-RAIGARH
INC 63.3%won by 40.1%BJP 23.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 42.9% to 40.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 23.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.6% between them, down from 95.6% — 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
42,665
Margin
17,098
40.08%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1KRISHNA KUMARIndian National Congress · INC27,02163.3%
- 2BIRBALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,92323.3%
- 3JANKI PRASADJanata Party · JNP1,0792.5%
- 4SHOUKILAL HIZADAIndependent · IND1,0462.5%
- 5DINBANDHU SAOIndependent · IND1,0272.4%
- 6BHAGANUIndependent · IND7351.7%
- 7GHASILAL KURREIndependent · IND6571.5%
- 8SURUT KUMARIndependent · IND5661.3%
- 9BHUWANLAL PATELIndependent · IND2760.6%
- 10KESHAW MISHRAIndependent · IND2510.6%
- 11NEMCHAND JAINIndependent · IND840.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −29.2%
- INC share
- 69.2% → 63.3%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 23.3%
- Turnout
- — → —