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1985 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Indian state election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ55621681 ↗
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Elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in 1985. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats and Arjun Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister but was forced to resign as Chief Minister after just one day due to differences with Sriniwas Tiwari. Motilal Vora succeeded him as Chief Minister. Arjun Singh was sworn in as the Governor of Punjab after this.

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“1985 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election” enters the record as indian state election. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Madhya, Pradesh and Legislative can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q55621681. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “1985 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.