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12. Ranikhet

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980

UP-RANIKHET

IND 34.5%won by 0.9%INC 33.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 0.9%.

  • IND vote shareIND went from 15.4% to 34.5% of the vote here (+19.1%).
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 251 votes (0.86%) — among the closest results anywhere.
  • Multi-cornered4 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
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not in source
Valid votes
29,235
Margin
251
0.86%

Candidates

8 contested · winner IND
  1. 1JASWANT SINGH BISTIndependent · IND10,08934.5%
  2. 2PURAN SINGH MAHRAIndian National Congress · INC9,83833.7%
  3. 3PRAMOD CHANDRA PANDEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,05320.7%
  4. 4PRATAP SINGHINCU · INCU1,5825.4%
  5. 5RAM LAL VIDYARTHIRPI · RPI5621.9%
  6. 6DAYAKRISHNA JOSHIIndependent · IND4351.5%
  7. 7NANDA BALLABH PADALIYAIndependent · IND3641.2%
  8. 8DIWAN SINGH BHANDARIIndependent · IND3121.1%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
JNP
Winner now
INDflipped
IND–INC swing
+15.9%
IND share
15.4% → 34.5%
INC share
30.4% → 33.7%
Turnout
— → —
11. Bageswar13. Naini Tal
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