Constituency
126. Bhatli
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-BHATLI
INC 59.0%won by 26.6%BJP 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 41.2% to 26.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
57,644
Margin
15,350
26.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MOHAN NAGIndian National Congress · INC33,99459.0%
- 2BIMBADHAR KUANRBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,64432.3%
- 3TIKELAL BANCHHORCommunist Party of India · CPI3,1385.4%
- 4MINKETAN BAGIndependent · IND1,3202.3%
- 5SEBAK NANDAIndependent · IND5481.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −14.5%
- INC share
- 67.7% → 59.0%
- BJP share
- 26.5% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —