Constituency
156. Balrampur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
UP-BALRAMPUR
INC 36.3%won by 8.6%BJP 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.3% to 8.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.9% between them, down from 77.6% — 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
66,007
Margin
5,675
8.60%
Candidates
15 contested · winner INC- 1MAN BAHADUR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC23,93236.3%
- 2HANUMAT SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,25727.7%
- 3ASHFAQ AHMADJanata Party · JNP12,39918.8%
- 4RAM PIYAREYCommunist Party of India · CPI3,0334.6%
- 5BANSH RAJIndependent · IND2,4293.7%
- 6DHURUB NARAIN SHAHILKD · LKD2,0593.1%
- 7VIJAI KUMARIndependent · IND7551.1%
- 8SATYA NARAIN TIWARIIndependent · IND5800.9%
- 9SURAY LALIndependent · IND5370.8%
- 10SHANTI PRASADDDP · DDP4910.7%
- 11JAGDAMBIKA PRASAD MISRAIndependent · IND4180.6%
- 12SATENDRA PRASADIndependent · IND4070.6%
- 13KAUSHAL KISHOREIndependent · IND3540.5%
- 14HARIHAR NARAIN MISRA AZADIndependent · IND2430.4%
- 15SHYAM LALIndependent · IND1130.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −0.7%
- INC share
- 43.4% → 36.3%
- BJP share
- 34.1% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —