Constituency
287. Burhanpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
MP-BURHANPUR
INC 41.1%won by 9.0%BJP 32.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.5% to 9.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.3% between them, down from 93.5% — 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
55,111
Margin
4,941
8.97%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1FIROZA AHSAN ALIIndian National Congress · INC22,65841.1%
- 2PURUSHOTTAM MARTANGRAO MAJUMDAR (BHAUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,71732.1%
- 3ABDUL RAB MAHDUL HASANIndependent · IND7,65913.9%
- 4MIR SAJJADALI MIR JULFKARALIIndependent · IND5,56510.1%
- 5ANANDRAO GENPAT RAOJanata Party · JNP1,2522.3%
- 6JAGDISH SHRIRAMIndependent · IND2600.5%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −6.5%
- INC share
- 54.5% → 41.1%
- BJP share
- 39.0% → 32.1%
- Turnout
- — → —