Results/Lok Sabha/Assam/1985
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Assam Lok Sabha 1985
Results board · 14 constituencies
HouseLok Sabha
StateAssam
Seats
14
Constituencies
Majority
8
Seats needed of 14
Electors
1.01Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
74.68L
74.0% of electors
Median turnout
74.0%
Median of 14 seats
IND margin
0
Exactly at majority · 8 − 8
[01]Seat matrix
Majority · 8 of 14IND 8 · at majority
IND
857.1%
Independents
INC
428.6%
Indian National Congress
PTCA
17.1%
Plains Tribals Council Of Assam
ICS
17.1%
Indian Congress (SOCIALIST)
[02]Vote share
The source carries no state-level vote share for Assam 1985.
Alliances
Not in the source for this election.
[03]Computed insights
Arithmetic · working shown-
Dhubri was decided by 11,818 votes, the closest of 14 seats; Gauhati had the widest margin, 3,03,506.
min / max of margin over 14 seats with a recorded margin -
Turnout ran from 49.2% in Dibrugarh to 87.1% in Barpeta; the median seat polled 74.0%.
min / median / max over 14 seats with a recorded turnout
Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.
[04]Turnout
< 50%
17.1% of seats
50–60
00.0% of seats
60–70
321.4% of seats
70–80
642.9% of seats
≥ 80%
428.6% of seats
- LowestDibrugarh49.2%
- HighestBarpeta87.1%
- NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded
[05]Every seat
| # | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes polled | Margin | Margin % | Turnout % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | KarimganjSC | Sudarsan Das | Indian Congress (SOCIALIST) | 4,89,669 | 74,421 | 15.2 | 72.3 |
| 02 | Silchar | Santosh Mohan Dev | Indian National Congress | 4,49,662 | 44,079 | 9.8 | 71.9 |
| 03 | Autonomous DistrictST | Biren Singh Engti | Indian National Congress | 2,07,149 | 14,551 | 7.0 | 62.7 |
| 04 | DhubriCLOSEST | Abdul Hamid | Independent | 6,17,349 | 11,818 | 1.9 | 83.3 |
| 05 | KokrajharST | Samar Brahma Choudhury | Plains Tribals Council Of Assam | 6,14,363 | 13,764 | 2.2 | 83.7 |
| 06 | Barpeta | Ataur Rahman | Independent | 6,36,586 | 56,296 | 8.8 | 87.1 |
| 07 | GauhatiWIDEST | Dinesh Goswami | Independent | 7,02,508 | 3,03,506 | 43.2 | 80.3 |
| 08 | Mangaldoi | Saifuddin Akmed | Independent | 6,15,571 | 1,45,793 | 23.7 | 78.2 |
| 09 | Tezpur | Bipin Pal Das | Indian National Congress | 5,04,167 | 14,797 | 2.9 | 75.0 |
| 10 | Nowgong | Muhiram Saikia | Independent | 5,93,134 | 35,630 | 6.0 | 78.3 |
| 11 | Kaliabor | Bhadreswar Tanti | Independent | 5,79,280 | 89,000 | 15.4 | 73.0 |
| 12 | Jorhat | Parag Chaliha | Independent | 5,05,149 | 98,753 | 19.6 | 69.5 |
| 13 | Dibrugarh | Haren Bhumji | Indian National Congress | 4,52,402 | 42,055 | 9.3 | 49.2 |
| 14 | Lakhimpur | Gakul Saikia | Independent | 5,01,246 | 1,69,934 | 33.9 | 68.9 |
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 3,03,506 votes
Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1985 · Assam · 14 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database
Vote share and alliancesThe source has no state-level summary for this election