Constituency
205. Salempur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
UP-SALEMPUR
INC 32.5%won by 13.3%LKD 19.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 12.2% to 32.5% of the vote here (+20.3%).
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 19.2% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 51.7% of the vote between them, up from 33.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
81,379
Margin
10,834
13.31%
Candidates
14 contested · winner INC- 1AWADHESH PRATAP MALLIndian National Congress · INC26,44632.5%
- 2SURESHLKD · LKD15,61219.2%
- 3MARGUU AHMED LARIJanata Party · JNP10,82413.3%
- 4DURGA PRASAD MISRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,34212.7%
- 5RAM PRAVESHIndependent · IND4,4855.5%
- 6AWADHESHCommunist Party of India · CPI3,8104.7%
- 7ALLUDDINIndependent · IND3,7204.6%
- 8DHIKANTI PRASADIndependent · IND1,8102.2%
- 9CHHEDI LALIndependent · IND1,1011.4%
- 10PRYAG TIWARIIndependent · IND1,0161.2%
- 11SUDAMAIndependent · IND9511.2%
- 12TEJ BAHADURIndependent · IND5800.7%
- 13RUDAL URF RUDRA PRATAP SINGHIndependent · IND4480.6%
- 14LALLAN PRASAD VERMADDP · DDP2340.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LKD swing
- +1.1%
- INC share
- 12.2% → 32.5%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 19.2%
- Turnout
- — → —