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

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	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

Bihar

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]

Gujarat

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

Himachal Pradesh

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]

Karnataka

Summary of results of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 1985^[3]

	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

Madhya Pradesh

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

Maharashtra

Summary of results of the Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1985^[5]

	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

Odisha

Summary of results of the 1985 Odisha Legislative Assembly election^[6]

	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%)

Punjab

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

Puducherry

Rajasthan

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]

Sikkim

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]

Uttar Pradesh

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]

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