1985 elections in India

Template:Infobox election Template:Politics of India Elections in the Republic of India in 1985 included elections to fourteen state legislative assemblies.

Overall result

Date(s)	State	Government before		Chief Minister before	Government after
3 February 1985	Madhya Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Arjun Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Arjun Singh
3 February 1985	Uttar Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Narayan Dutt Tiwari	Template:Full party name with color	Narayan Dutt Tiwari
5 March 1985	Andhra Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	N. T. Rama Rao	Template:Full party name with color	N. T. Rama Rao
5 March 1985	Gujarat	Template:Full party name with color	Madhav Singh Solanki	Template:Full party name with color	Madhav Singh Solanki
2 and 5 March 1985	Bihar	Template:Full party name with color	Chandrashekhar Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Bindeshwari Dubey
2 and 5 March 1985	Maharashtra	Template:Full party name with color	Vasantdada Patil	Template:Full party name with color	Vasantdada Patil
	Himachal Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Virbhadra Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Virbhadra Singh
	Karnataka	Template:Full party name with color	Ramakrishna Hegde	Template:Full party name with color	Ramakrishna Hegde
3 May 1985	Pondicherry		President's Rule		Template:Full party name with color	M. O. H. Farook
	Rajasthan	Template:Full party name with color	Hari Dev Joshi	Template:Full party name with color	Hari Dev Joshi
	Sikkim		President's Rule		Template:Full party name with color	Nar Bahadur Bhandari
26 September 1985	Punjab		President's Rule		Template:Full party name with color	Surjith Singh Barnala
	Odisha	Template:Full party name with color	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
	Assam	Template:Full party name with color	Hiteswar Saikia	Template:Full party name with color	Prafulla Kumar Mahanta

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

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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

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Pos	Party		Contested	Seats	Swing
1	bgcolor= Template:Party color\|	Independent	104	92	Template:Increase82
2	bgcolor= Template:Party color\|	Indian National Congress	125	25	Template:Decrease66
3	bgcolor= Template:Party color\|	Indian Congress (Socialist)	72	4	Template:Increase2
4		Plain Tribals Council of Assam	28	3	-
5	bgcolor= Template:Party color\|	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	39	2	-
		Total		126

Gujarat

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Parties and coalitions	Popular vote		Seats
Parties and coalitions	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

Karnataka

Template:Main Template:Election table |- 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
|- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Janata Party||205||139||6,418,795||43.60%||Template:Increase 44 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||223||65||6,009,461||40.82%||Template:Decrease 17 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India||7||3||133,008||0.90%||Template:Nochange |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||116||2||571,280||3.88%||Template:Decrease 16 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||7||2||127,333||0.86%||Template:Decrease 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||1200||13||1,393,626||9.47%||Template:Decrease 9 |- | |align="left"|Total||1795||224||14,720,634|||| |- |}

Madhya Pradesh

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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

Maharashtra

Template:Main Template:Election table |- 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
|- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||287||161||9,522,556||43.41%||Template:Decrease 25 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress (Socialist)||126||54||3,790,850||17.28%||Template:Increase 54 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Janata Party||61||20||1,618,101||7.38%||Template:Increase 20 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||67||16||1,590,351||7.25%||Template:Increase 2 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India||29||13||825,949||3.77%||Template:Increase 4 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India||31||2||202,790||0.92%||Template:Nochange |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||14||2||174,350||0.79%||Template:Nochange |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||1506||20||3,836,390||17.49%||Template:Increase 10 |- | |align="left"|Total||2230||288||21,934,742|| || |- |}

Template:Main Template:Election table |- 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;" | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | | 147 || 117

|| Template:Decrease1 || 79.59 || 40,07,258 || 51.08 || Template:Increase 3.3 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India (Marxist) | | 27 || 1 || - || 0.68 || 89,225 || 15.97 || - |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Janata Party | | 67 || 1 || Template:Increase 1 || 0.68|| 2,04,346|| 5.66 || Template:Decrease 1.43 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | | 27 || 1 || Template:Decrease 3 || 0.68 || 2,59,508 || 16.12 || Template:Increase 13.4 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Janata Party | | 140 || 21 || - || 14.28 || 24,01,566 || 32.03 || |- | Template:Party name with colour | | 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 (Template:Steady ) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 1,53,37,200 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|80,16,583 (52.27%) |}

Punjab

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Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly election 1985 ^[4]
	Party	contested	Seats won	change in seats	popular vote	%
style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"\|	Shiromani Akali Dal	100	73	Template:Increase 23	26,30,270	38.01
style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"\|	Indian National Congress	117	32	Template:Decrease 31	26,20,042	37.86
style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"\|	Bharatiya Janata Party	26	6	Template:Increase 5	3,45,560	4.99
style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"\|	Communist Party of India	38	1	Template:Decrease 8	3,07,496	4.44
style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"\|	Janata Party	5	1	Template:Increase 1	75,307	1.09
style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"\|	Independents	542	4	Template:Increase 2	8,09,254	11.69
	Others	29	0	-	1,32,889	1.92
	Total	857	117		69,20,818

References

↑ 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.
↑ STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1985 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH. eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India.
↑ List of Polling Booth for Punjab Lok Sabha Elections 1985.

External links

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[1] Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1985 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR

[2] STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1985 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF HIMACHAL PRADESH.

[3] STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1985 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH. eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India.

[4] List of Polling Booth for Punjab Lok Sabha Elections 1985.

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Party	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

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