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285. Jahanabad

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985

UP-JAHANABAD

INC 41.7%won by 0.2%LKD 41.5%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.4% to 0.2%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.2% of the vote between them, up from 66.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 123 votes (0.16%) — among the closest results anywhere.

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
75,836
Margin
123
0.16%

Candidates

13 contested · winner INC
  1. 1PRAKASH NARAIANIndian National Congress · INC31,61941.7%
  2. 2NARESH KUMAR UTTAMLKD · LKD31,49641.5%
  3. 3HANUMAN PRASADIndependent · IND2,6623.5%
  4. 4SATYA NARAIN AGANEHOTRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,0932.8%
  5. 5MEHINDER PAL SINGHIndependent · IND1,7992.4%
  6. 6HASSAN AHMADJanata Party · JNP1,5262.0%
  7. 7SHIV SHANKARIndependent · IND1,2431.6%
  8. 8RAM ASSARE SINGHIndependent · IND9941.3%
  9. 9RAM KARAN SINGHIndependent · IND9751.3%
  10. 10RAM PRASADIndependent · IND4880.6%
  11. 11SHIV SAGARIndependent · IND3810.5%
  12. 12LAKHAN PALIndependent · IND3570.5%
  13. 13RAM ASARAIndependent · IND2030.3%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–LKD swing
−13.3%
INC share
40.0% → 41.7%
LKD share
26.6% → 41.5%
Turnout
— → —
284. Fatehpur286. Bindki
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