Constituency
290. Kanpur Cantonment
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
UP-KANPUR-CANTONMENT
INC 65.2%won by 45.9%LKD 19.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.2% to 45.9%.
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 19.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.4% of the vote between them, up from 78.5% — 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
39,216
Margin
17,990
45.87%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1PASHUPATI NATHIndian National Congress · INC25,55165.2%
- 2LAXMI SHANKERLKD · LKD7,56119.3%
- 3VIR BHADRA MISRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,27910.9%
- 4DIN DAYALJanata Party · JNP5481.4%
- 5ATIKARRAHMANIndependent · IND4001.0%
- 6ASLAMIndependent · IND2250.6%
- 7RAM KEWALDDP · DDP1670.4%
- 8GANGA DHAR PANDEYIndependent · IND1370.3%
- 9BRIJ MOHANIndependent · IND1070.3%
- 10PURSHOTTAMIndependent · IND980.2%
- 11R. S. RAJORIYAIndependent · IND550.1%
- 12AWAK CHANDIndependent · IND440.1%
- 13MANOJIndependent · IND440.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–LKD swing
- +0.5%
- INC share
- 45.4% → 65.2%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 19.3%
- Turnout
- — → —