Constituency
259. Machhilishahr
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
UP-MACHHILISHAHR
INC 31.8%won by 3.5%LKD 28.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.2% to 3.5%.
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 28.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Multi-cornered5 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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Valid votes
62,186
Margin
2,180
3.51%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1KESHRI PRASADIndian National Congress · INC19,80131.8%
- 2BINDRA PRASAD YADAVLKD · LKD17,62128.3%
- 3SITA RAM PATELCommunist Party of India · CPI12,23619.7%
- 4DEVENDRA BAHADURJanata Party · JNP3,7636.1%
- 5KAILASH NARAIN MISHRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,7016.0%
- 6SUKHAI RAMIndependent · IND3,0484.9%
- 7SABHAJIT YADAVIndependent · IND8981.4%
- 8RAM SHIROMANIIndependent · IND5090.8%
- 9RAJ PATIDDP · DDP3510.6%
- 10SURENDRA NATHIndependent · IND2580.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–LKD swing
- −25.1%
- INC share
- 28.6% → 31.8%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 28.3%
- Turnout
- — → —