Constituency
213. Seoni
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
MP-SEONI
INC 51.5%won by 31.3%BJP 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.3% to 31.3%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.7% between them, down from 86.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
44,098
Margin
13,785
31.26%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1RAMESH CHAND JAINIndian National Congress · INC22,69151.5%
- 2PRAMOD KUMAR JAIN ALIAS KUNWAR SAHIBBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,90620.2%
- 3SUBHAGYACHAND MALOO (SUBHAGYA BHAIYA)Janata Party · JNP8,58919.5%
- 4ISRAR SABRICommunist Party of India · CPI2,0174.6%
- 5BABOOLAL SHRIVASTAVAIndependent · IND5381.2%
- 6BHURA BHOI BHALAVIIndependent · IND4931.1%
- 7AZHARUL ALIMIndependent · IND4571.0%
- 8BHAIYALAL PATELIndependent · IND4070.9%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +28.0%
- INC share
- 44.6% → 51.5%
- BJP share
- 41.3% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —