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28. Mahe

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Puducherry Assembly Election, 1985

PY-MAHE

INC 53.0%won by 14.0%CPM 39.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.0%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 53.0% of the vote here (+53.0%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
6,966
Margin
976
14.01%

Candidates

6 contested · winner INC
  1. 1P.K. SATHYANANDANIndian National Congress · INC3,69553.0%
  2. 2K.V. RAGHAVANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,71939.0%
  3. 3C.V. SULAIMAN HAJEEMUL · MUL4476.4%
  4. 4VALAVIL SUDHAKARANIndependent · IND420.6%
  5. 5ABDUL GAFFOORIndependent · IND380.5%
  6. 6V.K. BHARATHANIndependent · IND250.4%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–CPM swing
+62.2%
INC share
0.0% → 53.0%
CPM share
48.2% → 39.0%
Turnout
— → —
27. Neduncadu29. Palloor
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