Constituency
284. Khandwa
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
MP-KHANDWA
INC 60.7%won by 32.7%BJP 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 22.0% to 32.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.6% between them, down from 93.8% — 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
49,440
Margin
16,185
32.74%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1NANDA MONDLOIIndian National Congress · INC29,99660.7%
- 2HUKUM PAHALWANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,81127.9%
- 3BHAJANLAL LAXMINARAYANCommunist Party of India · CPI4,3228.7%
- 4RAJENDRASINGH FATTESINGHIndependent · IND4020.8%
- 5DAMODAR RAMESHWARIndependent · IND3380.7%
- 6RAMESH BABULALIndependent · IND2520.5%
- 7MANISHANKAR NANDKISHORIndependent · IND1200.2%
- 8DWARKAPRASAD RAMPRASADIndependent · IND1100.2%
- 9AMARJEET SINGH RAJEDNRASINGHIndependent · IND890.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +10.8%
- INC share
- 57.9% → 60.7%
- BJP share
- 35.9% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- — → —