1985 elections in India

Elections in the Republic of India in 1985 included elections to fourteen state legislative assemblies.

Overall result Date(s)StateGovernment beforeChief Minister beforeGovernment afterElected Chief MinisterMaps3 February 1985 Madhya Pradesh Arjun Singh Arjun Singh Uttar PradeshNarayan Dutt TiwariNarayan Dutt Tiwari 5 March 1985Andhra PradeshN. T. Rama RaoN. T. Rama RaoGujarat Madhav Singh Solanki Madhav Singh Solanki 2 and 5 March 1985 Bihar Chandrashekhar Singh Bindeshwari DubeyMaharashtra Vasantdada Patil Vasantdada PatilHimachal PradeshVirbhadra Singh Virbhadra Singh Karnataka Ramakrishna Hegde Ramakrishna Hegde 3 May 1985PondicherryPresident's Rule M. O. H. Farook Rajasthan Hari Dev Joshi Hari Dev Joshi SikkimPresident's Rule Nar Bahadur Bhandari 26 September 1985 PunjabPresident's Rule Surjith Singh Barnala Odisha Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Assam Hiteswar Saikia Prafulla Kumar Mahanta

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

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%

Assam

Pos Party Contested SeatsSwing 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

Bihar

Party Party Flag Seats Contested Seats Won Popular Vote PercentageIndian 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:Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1985 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR

Gujarat

Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats Votes % Won +/− Indian National Congress (INC) 5,122,75355.55149 +8Janata Party1,775,33819.2514 -7 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)1,379,12014.96 11+2 Independents (IND) 856,160 9.28 8CPM16,5430.1800CPI24,0130.2600Total 9,221,149 100.00 182 ±0Valid votes7,770,19898.03Invalid votes155,7821.97Votes cast / turnout13,676,13151.59Registered voters 15,363,762

Himachal Pradesh

Rank Party Seats Contested Seats won % votes1Indian National Congress685855.862Bharatiya Janata Party57735.873Independent6828.284Lok Dal311.44 Total 68 Source:

Karnataka

|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats Contested !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats Won !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change

|align="left"|Janata Party||205||139||6,418,795||43.60%|| 44

|align="left"|Indian National Congress||223||65||6,009,461||40.82%|| 17

|align="left"|Communist Party of India||7||3||133,008||0.90%||

|align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||116||2||571,280||3.88%|| 16

|align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||7||2||127,333||0.86%|| 1

|align="left"|Independents||1200||13||1,393,626||9.47%|| 9

|align="left"|Total||1795||224||14,720,634||||

Madhya Pradesh

Source: SN Party SeatsContested Seatswon 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

Maharashtra

|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change

|align="left"|Indian National Congress||287||161||9,522,556||43.41%|| 25

|align="left"|Indian National Congress (Socialist)||126||54||3,790,850||17.28%|| 54

|align="left"|Janata Party||61||20||1,618,101||7.38%|| 20

|align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||67||16||1,590,351||7.25%|| 2

|align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India||29||13||825,949||3.77%|| 4

|align="left"|Communist Party of India||31||2||202,790||0.92%||

|align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||14||2||174,350||0.79%||

|align="left"|Independents||1506||20||3,836,390||17.49%|| 10

|align="left"|Total||2230||288||21,934,742|| ||

Odisha

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" | ! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats Contested !! Won !! Net Change in seats !! % of Seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in vote % |- style="background: #90EE90;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | | 147 || 117

|| 1 || 79.59 || 40,07,258 || 51.08 || 3.3

| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India (Marxist) | | 27 || 1 || - || 0.68 || 89,225 || 15.97 || -

| style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Janata Party | | 67 || 1 || 1 || 0.68|| 2,04,346|| 5.66 || 1.43

| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | | 27 || 1 || 3 || 0.68 || 2,59,508 || 16.12 || 13.4

| style="text-align:left;" |Janata Party | | 140 || 21 || - || 14.28 || 24,01,566 || 32.03 ||

| 374 || 7 || N/A || 4.76 || 8,23,850 || 11.54 || N/A |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3| ! style="text-align:center;" |Total Seats !! 147 ( ) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 1,53,37,200 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|80,16,583 (52.27%)

Punjab

Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly election 1985 Partycontested Seats won change in seats popular vote %Shiromani Akali Dal10073 2326,30,27038.01Indian National Congress11732 3126,20,04237.86Bharatiya Janata Party266 53,45,5604.99Communist Party of India381 83,07,4964.44Janata Party51 175,3071.09Independents5424 28,09,25411.69Others 290 -1,32,8891.92Total85711769,20,818

Puducherry

Rajasthan

Sikkim

Uttar Pradesh

References

External links

Election Commission of India