Constituency
315. Manikpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
UP-MANIKPUR
INC 48.1%won by 30.8%BJP 17.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.4% to 30.8%.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
36,769
Margin
11,315
30.77%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1SHRIMONI BHAIIndian National Congress · INC17,69848.1%
- 2RAMESH CHANDERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,38317.4%
- 3KAMATACommunist Party of India · CPI6,18316.8%
- 4LAXMI PRASAD VERMALKD · LKD3,3079.0%
- 5GAIJAIndependent · IND8652.4%
- 6DHARSHAN RAMIndependent · IND7252.0%
- 7GAYA PRASAD KOTAYABANDHUIndependent · IND5511.5%
- 8BHARAT LALIndependent · IND4521.2%
- 9DURGADDP · DDP4021.1%
- 10DAWARPAL ALIAS DAWARIKA PASADICJ · ICJ2030.6%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +3.4%
- INC share
- 47.7% → 48.1%
- BJP share
- 20.3% → 17.4%
- Turnout
- — → —