1985 elections in India
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Elections in the Republic of India in 1985 included elections to fourteen state legislative assemblies.
Legislative Assembly elections
[edit]| No | Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | Seats change | Vote Share | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telugu Desam Party | 250 | 202 | +1 | 46.21% | -7.50% |
| 2 | Indian National Congress | 290 | 50 | -10 | 37.25% | +3.67% |
| 3 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 12 | 11 | +6 | 2.31% | +0.20% |
| 4 | Communist Party of India | 12 | 11 | +7 | 2.69% | -0.10% |
| 5 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 10 | 8 | +3 | 1.32% | -1.14% |
| 6 | Janata Party | 5 | 3 | +2 | 0.76% | -0.20% |
| Pos | Party | Contested | Seats | Swing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Independent | 104 | 92 |  82
| |
| 2 | Indian National Congress | 125 | 25 |  66
| |
| 3 | Indian Congress (Socialist) | 72 | 4 | 2
| |
| 4 | Plain Tribals Council of Assam | 28 | 3 | - | |
| 5 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 39 | 2 | - | |
| Total | 126 | ||||
| Party | Party Flag | Seats Contested | Seats Won | Popular Vote | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | 323 | 196 | 9,558,562 | 39.30% | |
| Lok Dal |  |
261 | 46 | 3,573,173 | 14.69% |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 234 | 16 | 1,833,275 | 7.54% | |
| Janata Party | |
229 | 13 | 1,754,705 | 7.21% |
| Communist Party of India |  |
167 | 12 | 2,154,066 | 8.86% |
| Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | |
57 | 9 | 443,822 | 1.82% |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) |  |
44 | 1 | 392,375 | 1.61% |
| Indian Congress (Socialist) | |
59 | 1 | 160,159 | 0.66% |
| Socialist Unity Centre of India |  |
1 | 1 | 17,890 | 0.07% |
| Independents | |
2804 | 29 | 4,349,057 | 17.88% |
| Total | 4237 | 324 | 24,323,868 |
Source:[1]
| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Won | +/− | |
| Indian National Congress (INC) | 5,122,753 | 55.55 | 149 | +8 |
| Janata Party | 1,775,338 | 19.25 | 14 | -7 |
| Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 1,379,120 | 14.96 | 11 | +2 |
| Independents (IND) | 856,160 | 9.28 | 8 | |
| CPM | 16,543 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 |
| CPI | 24,013 | 0.26 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 9,221,149 | 100.00 | 182 | ±0 |
| Valid votes | 7,770,198 | 98.03 | ||
| Invalid votes | 155,782 | 1.97 | ||
| Votes cast / turnout | 13,676,131 | 51.59 | ||
| Registered voters | 15,363,762 | |||
| Rank | Party | Seats Contested | Seats won | % votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian National Congress | 68 | 58 | 55.86 |
| 2 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 57 | 7 | 35.87 |
| 3 | Independent | 68 | 2 | 8.28 |
| 4 | Lok Dal | 3 | 1 | 1.44 |
| Total | 68 |
Source:[2]
| Political Party |
Seats Contested |
Seats Won |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
Seat change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janata Party | 205 | 139 | 6,418,795 | 43.60% | 44
| |
| Indian National Congress | 223 | 65 | 6,009,461 | 40.82% | 17
| |
| Communist Party of India | 7 | 3 | 133,008 | 0.90% | 
| |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 116 | 2 | 571,280 | 3.88% | 16
| |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 7 | 2 | 127,333 | 0.86% | 1
| |
| Independents | 1200 | 13 | 1,393,626 | 9.47% | 9
| |
| Total | 1795 | 224 | 14,720,634 |
Source:[4]
| SN | Party | Seats Contested |
Seats won |
Seats Changed |
% Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian National Congress | 320 | 250 | +4 | 48.87 |
| 1 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 311 | 58 | -2 | 32.42% |
| 3 | Janata Party | 172 | 5 | +3 | 4.01% |
| 4 | Indian National Congress (S) | 30 | 1 | N/A | 0.40% |
| 7 | Independent | 320 | 6 | -2 | 10.82% |
| Total | 320 |
| Political Party |
No. of candidates |
No. of elected |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
Seat change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | 287 | 161 | 9,522,556 | 43.41% | 25
| |
| Indian National Congress (Socialist) | 126 | 54 | 3,790,850 | 17.28% | 54
| |
| Janata Party | 61 | 20 | 1,618,101 | 7.38% | 20
| |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 67 | 16 | 1,590,351 | 7.25% | 2
| |
| Peasants and Workers Party of India | 29 | 13 | 825,949 | 3.77% | 4
| |
| Communist Party of India | 31 | 2 | 202,790 | 0.92% |
| |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 14 | 2 | 174,350 | 0.79% |
| |
| Independents | 1506 | 20 | 3,836,390 | 17.49% | 10
| |
| Total | 2230 | 288 | 21,934,742 |
| Political Party | Flag | Seats Contested |
Won | Net Change in seats |
% of Seats |
Votes | Vote % | Change in vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | 147 | 117 | 1 |
79.59 | 40,07,258 | 51.08 | 3.3
| ||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 27 | 1 | - | 0.68 | 89,225 | 15.97 | - | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 67 | 1 | 1 |
0.68 | 2,04,346 | 5.66 | 1.43
| ||
| Communist Party of India | 27 | 1 | 3 |
0.68 | 2,59,508 | 16.12 | 13.4
| ||
| Janata Party | 140 | 21 | - | 14.28 | 24,01,566 | 32.03 | |||
| Independent | 374 | 7 | N/A | 4.76 | 8,23,850 | 11.54 | N/A | ||
| Total Seats | 147 ( ) |
Voters | 1,53,37,200 | Turnout | 80,16,583 (52.27%) | ||||
| Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly election 1985 [7] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | contested | Seats won | change in seats | popular vote | % | |
| Shiromani Akali Dal | 100 | 73 | 23
|
26,30,270 | 38.01 | |
| Indian National Congress | 117 | 32 | 31
|
26,20,042 | 37.86 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 26 | 6 | 5
|
3,45,560 | 4.99 | |
| Communist Party of India | 38 | 1 | 8
|
3,07,496 | 4.44 | |
| Janata Party | 5 | 1 | 1
|
75,307 | 1.09 | |
| Independents | 542 | 4 | 2
|
8,09,254 | 11.69 | |
| Others | 29 | 0 | - | 1,32,889 | 1.92 | |
| Total | 857 | 117 | 69,20,818 | |||
 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Indian National Congress | 5,342,920 | 46.57 | 113 | –20 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 2,437,594 | 21.24 | 39 | +7 | |
| Lok Dal | 1,360,826 | 11.86 | 27 | New | |
| Janata Party | 675,103 | 5.88 | 10 | +2 | |
| Communist Party of India | 141,063 | 1.23 | 1 | 0 | |
| Indian National Congress (Jagjivan) | 74,176 | 0.65 | 0 | New | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 66,921 | 0.58 | 0 | –1 | |
| Indian Congress (Socialist) | 9,731 | 0.08 | 0 | New | |
| Independents | 1,365,641 | 11.90 | 10 | –2 | |
| Total | 11,473,975 | 100.00 | 200 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 11,473,975 | 98.40 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 186,527 | 1.60 | |||
| Total votes | 11,660,502 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 21,228,702 | 54.93 | |||
| Source: ECI[8] | |||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 60,371 | 62.20 | 30 | +14 | |
| Indian National Congress | 23,440 | 24.15 | 1 | +1 | |
| Janata Party | 913 | 0.94 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sikkim Prajatantra Congress | 438 | 0.45 | 0 | –4 | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 336 | 0.35 | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist Party of India | 25 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
| Independents | 11,534 | 11.88 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 97,057 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 97,057 | 97.61 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 2,378 | 2.39 | |||
| Total votes | 99,435 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 155,041 | 64.13 | |||
| Source: ECI[9] | |||||
 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Indian National Congress | 11,544,698 | 39.25 | 269 | –40 | |
| Lok Dal | 6,304,455 | 21.43 | 84 | New | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 2,890,884 | 9.83 | 16 | +5 | |
| Janata Party | 1,646,005 | 5.60 | 20 | +16 | |
| Communist Party of India | 894,620 | 3.04 | 6 | 0 | |
| Indian National Congress (Jagjivan) | 669,031 | 2.27 | 5 | New | |
| Doordarshi Party | 228,688 | 0.78 | 0 | New | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 198,780 | 0.68 | 2 | 0 | |
| Indian Congress (Socialist) | 88,616 | 0.30 | 0 | New | |
| All India Forward Bloc | 4,074 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1,297 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Republican Party of India | 562 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 4,942,962 | 16.80 | 23 | +6 | |
| Total | 29,414,672 | 100.00 | 425 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 29,414,672 | 98.53 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 437,456 | 1.47 | |||
| Total votes | 29,852,128 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 65,404,531 | 45.64 | |||
| Source: ECI[10] | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1985 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR
- ^ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1985 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF HIMACHAL PRADESH" (PDF).
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1985 to the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, Election Commission of India" (PDF). Election Commission of India.
- ^ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1985 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH". eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
- ^ "Key Highlights of General Election, 1985 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra" (PDF). Election Commission of India.
- ^ "Orissa 1985". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ "List of Polling Booth for Punjab Lok Sabha Elections 1985".
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1985 to the Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1985 to the Legislative Assembly of Sikkim". Election Commission of India.
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1985 to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
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