Constituency
258. Shajapur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
MP-SHAJAPUR
BJP 52.8%won by 9.7%INC 43.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 9.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 28.5% to 52.8% of the vote here (+24.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.4% — 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
66,491
Margin
6,428
9.67%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1PURUSHOTTAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP35,13852.8%
- 2DEEP SINGH YADAVIndian National Congress · INC28,71043.2%
- 3DEVI LALIndependent · IND2,2593.4%
- 4HARI SINGHIndependent · IND1970.3%
- 5JAFAR KHANLKD · LKD1870.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +29.1%
- BJP share
- 28.5% → 52.8%
- INC share
- 47.9% → 43.2%
- Turnout
- — → —