NajafgarhMetropolitan Council by-election result, 1985
P.C.Kaushik (INC) won Najafgarh in the 1985 Metropolitan Council by-election with 78.9% of the vote, beating D.V.Solanki (BJP) by 47,547 votes.
Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1977 election. In 1972, seat no. 24 was Tughlaqabad. Seat boundaries were redrawn after 1983. From 1993, seat no. 24 is Mangolpuri. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.
Winner
A comfortable win — P.C.KAUSHIK won by 67.8%.
Seat history
All Candidates
10 candidates| # | Candidate | Party | Votes · %Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P.C.KAUSHIK | 55,30578.9% | |
| 2 | D.V.SOLANKI | 7,75811.1% | |
| 3 | AZAD SINGH | 4,5956.6% | |
| 4 | POORAN CHAND | 1,2231.7% | |
| 5 | BIJAY KUMAR IND | IND | 6300.9% |
| 6 | MUNSHI RAM IND | IND | 1570.2% |
| 7 | KABUL SINGH IND | IND | 1530.2% |
| 8 | RAJ SINGH IND | IND | 1400.2% |
| 9 | ASHOK IND | IND | 590.1% |
| 10 | RADHEY SHYAM IND | IND | 580.1% |
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A comfortable margin, an essentially two-way race.
How safe is this seat?
winning margin, share of votes
How many parties were really in the race?
INC and BJP took 90% of the votes.
Parties in the race 1.56 Effective number of parties — counts each party by its share of the vote.
How did the vote split?
This seat number was reused from 2008. The district data on file describe the seat as contested from 2008, so they are not shown for earlier elections.
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