1985 Punjab Legislative Assembly election

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All 117 seats in the Punjab Legislative Assembly 59 seats needed for a majority
Registered	10,728,825
Turnout	67.53% ( 2.17%)
First party Second party   Leader Surjit Singh Barnala Gurbinder Kaur Brar Party SAD INC Leader's seat Barnala (won) Muktsar (won) Seats won 73 32 Seat change 36 31 Popular vote 2,630,270 2,620,042 Percentage 38.01% 37.86% Swing 11.1% 7.4%
CM before election President's rule INC Elected CM Surjit Singh Barnala SAD

Election where held in Punjab on 26 September 1985, to elect the members of Punjab Legislative Assembly.^[1] The signing of the Rajiv–Longowal Accord between Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the Akali leader, Harchand Singh Longowal, on 24 July 1985 paved the way to holding this elections.^[2] The election were hald alongside the election to the Lok Sabha, Which were not held in 1984.

Voter statistics

Electors

No. of valid votes 6920818

No. of voted rejected 324463

No. of polling stations 12698

Constituencies Data

Results

Result by Party

Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly election 1985 [4]
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

Results by Region

Results By Constituency

See also

• Elections in Punjab, India
• Ninth Punjab Legislative Assembly

References