Close contests · 1984
Tightest races by winning margin for the 1984 general election.
| Constituency | State | Winner | Runner-up | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludhiana | Punjab | Mewa Singh (SAD) | Joginder Pali Pandey (INC) | 140 (0.0%) |
| Jagatsinghpur | Orissa | Lakshman Mallick (INC) | Rabi Roy (JNP) | 958 (0.2%) |
| Bikramganj | Bihar 1947 1999 | Tapeshwar Singh (INC) | Ram Awadhesh Singh (LKD) | 1,413 (0.2%) |
| Darjeeling | West Bengal | Ananda Prasad Pathak (CPM) | Dawa Narbula (INC) | 1,389 (0.3%) |
| Mavelikkara | Kerala | Thampan Thomas (JNP) | T. N. Upendranatha Kurup (IND) | 1,287 (0.3%) |
| Sasaram | Bihar 1947 1999 | Jagjiwan Ram (ICJ) | Mahabir Paswan (INC) | 1,372 (0.3%) |
| Medak | Andhra Pradesh 27 | P.Manik Reddy (TDP) | P.Shiv Shanker (INC) | 1,816 (0.3%) |
| Arunachal West | Arunachal Pradesh | P.K.Thangon (INC) | Tomo Riba (PPA) | 461 (0.4%) |
| Dum Dum | West Bengal | Asutosh Law (INC) | Niren Ghosh (CPM) | 2,703 (0.4%) |
| Nagapattinam | Tamil Nadu | Mahalingam, M. (ADK) | Murugaiyan K. (CPI) | 2,289 (0.4%) |
| Mathurapur | West Bengal | Manoranjan Halder (INC) | Nirmal Sinha (CPM) | 2,299 (0.4%) |
| Berhampore | West Bengal | Atish Chandra Sinha (INC) | Tridib Chaudhuri (RSP) | 3,047 (0.5%) |
| Nizamabad | Andhra Pradesh 27 | Tadur Bala Goud (INC) | M. Narayan Reddy (TDP) | 2,447 (0.5%) |
| Gandhinagar | Gujarat | G.I.Patel (INC) | Indubhai Chaturbhai Patel (JNP) | 2,754 (0.5%) |
| Bijapur | Karnataka | Guraddi Shivashankareppa Mallappa (JNP) | Choudhari Rayagondappa Bhimanna (INC) | 2,419 (0.6%) |
| Sonepat | Haryana | Dharam Pal Singh (INC) | Devi Lal (LKD) | 2,941 (0.6%) |
| Hyderabad | Andhra Pradesh 27 | Sultan Salahuddin Owaise (IND) | K.Prahbakara Reddy (TDP) | 3,481 (0.6%) |
| Azamgarh | Uttar Pradesh 1947 1999 | Santosh Kumar Singh (INC) | Ram Naresh Yadav (LKD) | 2,786 (0.7%) |
| Tripura West | Tripura | Ajoy Biswas (CPM) | Sudhir Ranjan Majumder (INC) | 3,520 (0.7%) |
| Chikkodi | Karnataka | B. Shankaranad (INC) | Annappa Kallappa Rayannavar (JNP) | 3,645 (0.8%) |
| Diamond Harbour | West Bengal | Amal Datta (CPM) | Sudhendu Mundle (INC) | 4,673 (0.8%) |
| Krishnagar | West Bengal | Renu Pada Das (CPM) | Sankar Das Banerji (INC) | 4,787 (0.8%) |
| Murshidabad | West Bengal | Syed Musudal Hossain (CPM) | Azizur Rahman (INC) | 6,262 (0.9%) |
| Nabadwip | West Bengal | Bibha Ghosh (Goswami) (CPM) | Apurba Lal Majumdar (INC) | 6,652 (1.0%) |
| Etah | Uttar Pradesh 1947 1999 | Muhammad Mehfooj Ali Khan Alias Pyarey Main (LKD) | Malik Moh. Mushir Ahmad Khan (INC) | 3,431 (1.0%) |
| Kottayam | Kerala | Suresh Kurup (CPM) | Skaria Thomas (KEC) | 5,853 (1.1%) |
| Chail | Uttar Pradesh 1947 1999 | Bihari Lal Shailesh (INC) | Ramnishore Rakesh (LKD) | 3,418 (1.1%) |
| Kanakapura | Karnataka | M. V. Chandrashekara Murthy (INC) | P. G. R. Sindhiya (JNP) | 7,026 (1.1%) |
| Kurnool | Andhra Pradesh 27 | Erasu Ayyapu Reddy (TDP) | Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy (INC) | 7,290 (1.4%) |
| Sabarkantha | Gujarat | H.M.Patel (JNP) | Shantubhai Chunibhai Patel (INC) | 6,759 (1.5%) |
| Warangal | Andhra Pradesh 27 | T. Kalpana Devi (TDP) | Kamaluddin Ahmed (INC) | 8,456 (1.6%) |
| Machilipatnam | Andhra Pradesh 27 | Sambasivarao Kuvuru (INC) | Vaddi Rangarao (TDP) | 9,093 (1.7%) |
| Secunderabad | Andhra Pradesh 27 | T.Anjaiah (INC) | Bandaru Dattareya (BJP) | 8,474 (1.7%) |
| Hooghly | West Bengal | Indumati Bhattacharyya (INC) | Rup Chand Pal (CPM) | 10,967 (1.7%) |
| Patan | Gujarat | Vankar Punamchand Mithabhai (INC) | Chavda Khemchandbhai Sombhai (JNP) | 6,787 (1.8%) |
| Moradabad | Uttar Pradesh 1947 1999 | Hafiz Mohd. Siddique (INC) | Hazi Gulam Mohd. khan (LKD) | 7,113 (1.8%) |
| Barasat | West Bengal | Tarun Kanti Ghosh (INC) | Chitta Basu (FBL) | 12,612 (1.8%) |
| Tamluk | West Bengal | Mishra Satyagopal (CPM) | Saradindu Samanta (INC) | 11,692 (1.9%) |
| Badagara | Kerala | K. P. Unnikrishnan (ICS) | K. M. Radhakrishnan (IND) | 10,979 (1.9%) |
| Dhubri | Assam | Abdul Hamid (IND) | Nurul Islam (INC) | 11,818 (1.9%) |
| Kasaragod | Kerala | I. Rama Rai (INC) | Balanandan (CPM) | 11,369 (2.0%) |
| Guntur | Andhra Pradesh 27 | N.G.Ranga (INC) | Chandraskhara Rao Movva (TDP) | 11,894 (2.0%) |
| Uluberia | West Bengal | Hannan Mollah (CPM) | Anwar Ali Sk. (INC) | 12,425 (2.0%) |
| Tenali | Andhra Pradesh 27 | Nissankararao Venkataratnam (TDP) | Basav Punnayya Singam (INC) | 10,438 (2.0%) |
| Balrampur | Uttar Pradesh 1947 1999 | Deep Narain Van Mahanth (INC) | Fallul Bari Alias Banney Bhai (IND) | 8,656 (2.2%) |
| Arambagh | West Bengal | Anil Basu (CPM) | Gopal Das Nag (INC) | 14,160 (2.2%) |
| Washim | Maharashtra | Ghulam Nabi Azad (INC) | Rathod Gokuldas Dekhsing (ICS) | 10,359 (2.2%) |
| Vidisha | Madhya Pradesh 1947 1999 | Pratapbhanu Krishna Gopal (INC) | Raghavji (BJP) | 9,553 (2.2%) |
| Bagalkot | Karnataka | Patil Hanmantagouda Bhimanagouda (INC) | Nadagouda Mallangagouda Pravatagouda (JNP) | 10,512 (2.2%) |
| Kokrajhar | Assam | Samar Brahma Choudhury (PTC) | Prasenjit Brahma (IND) | 13,764 (2.2%) |
| Bangalore South | Karnataka | V. S. Krishna Iyer (JNP) | K. Venkatagiri gowda (INC) | 12,732 (2.3%) |
| Narasaraopet | Andhra Pradesh 27 | Katuri Narayanaswamy (TDP) | K Brahmananda Reddy (INC) | 14,238 (2.4%) |
| Birbhum | West Bengal | Gadahar Saha (CPM) | Badal Bagdi (INC) | 13,481 (2.4%) |
| Contai | West Bengal | Phulrenu Guha (INC) | Sudhi Kumar Giri (CPM) | 13,758 (2.5%) |
| Nagercoil | Tamil Nadu | N. Dennis (INC) | P. Vijayaraghavan (JNP) | 11,637 (2.5%) |
| Jangipur | West Bengal | Abedin Zainal (CPM) | Md. Sohorab (INC) | 14,738 (2.5%) |
| Purulia | West Bengal | Chittaranjan Mahata (FBL) | K.P. Singh Deo (INC) | 13,751 (2.5%) |
| Jalesar | Uttar Pradesh 1947 1999 | Kailash Chandra Yadav (INC) | Sushila Devi (LKD) | 9,738 (2.5%) |
| Siddipet | Andhra Pradesh 27 | G.Vijayaramarao (TDP) | Yelliah Nandi (INC) | 14,201 (2.6%) |
| Akola | Maharashtra | Madhusudan Atmaram Vairale (INC) | Ambedkar Prakash Yeshwant (IND) | 13,810 (2.7%) |
| Tezpur | Assam | Bipin Pal Das (INC) | Purna Narayan Sinha (JNP) | 14,797 (2.9%) |
| Jadavpur | West Bengal | Mamata Banerjee (INC) | Somnath Chatterjee (CPM) | 19,660 (3.0%) |
| Bhavnagar | Gujarat | Gohil Gigabhai Bhavubhai (INC) | Mehta Prasannvadan Manilal (JNP) | 10,995 (3.1%) |
| Ongole | Andhra Pradesh 27 | Bezawada Papireddy (TDP) | Venkata Reddy Puli (INC) | 18,143 (3.2%) |
| Kendrapara | Orissa | Bijayananda Pattnaik (JNP) | Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty (INC) | 16,776 (3.3%) |
| Joynagar | West Bengal | Sant Kumar Mandal (RSP) | Ardhendu Sekhar Naskar (INC) | 20,449 (3.4%) |
| Inner Manipur | Manipur | N.Tombi SIngh (INC) | Oinam Tomba (IND) | 14,729 (3.4%) |
| Vaishali | Bihar 1947 1999 | Kishori Sinha (INC) | Tarkeshwari Sinha (LKD) | 19,953 (3.5%) |
| Patiala | Punjab | Charanjit SIngh (SAD) | Amarjit Kaur (INC) | 20,268 (3.6%) |
| Raiganj | West Bengal | Golam Yazdani (INC) | Subrata Mukherjee (CPM) | 20,224 (3.6%) |
| Balurghat | West Bengal | Palas Barman (RSP) | Satyendra Nath Ray (INC) | 22,217 (3.6%) |
| Quilon | Kerala | S. Krishna kumar (INC) | R. s. Unni (IND) | 20,357 (3.6%) |
| Amroha | Uttar Pradesh 1947 1999 | Ram Pal Singh (INC) | Ishrat Ali Ansari (IND) | 17,277 (3.8%) |
| KHED | Maharashtra | Ramkrishna More (INC) | Kakde Sambhajirao Sahebrao (JNP) | 18,024 (4.1%) |
| Jahanabad | Bihar 1947 1999 | Ramasharay Pd. Singh (CPI) | Mahendra Prasad (INC) | 30,976 (4.2%) |
| Bankura | West Bengal | Acharia Basudeb (CPM) | Arun Kumar Bhattacharya (INC) | 24,216 (4.4%) |
| Cannanore | Kerala | Muliappalli Ramachandran (INC) | Pattiam Rajan (CPM) | 25,053 (4.5%) |
| Vijayawada | Andhra Pradesh 27 | Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao (TDP) | Chennupati Vidya (INC) | 28,444 (4.6%) |
| Serampore | West Bengal | Bimal Kanti Ghosh (INC) | Ajit Bag (CPM) | 30,231 (4.6%) |
| Wardha | Maharashtra | Sathe Vasant Purushottam (INC) | Ghangare Ramchandra Marotrao (CPM) | 23,423 (4.7%) |
| Etawah | Uttar Pradesh 1947 1999 | Raghuraj Singh (INC) | Dhani Ram Verma (LKD) | 23,068 (5.4%) |
| Bhagalpur | Bihar 1947 1999 | Bhagwat Jha Azad (INC) | Jagesar Mandal (LKD) | 30,485 (5.4%) |
| Alipurduars | West Bengal | Pijus Tirkey (RSP) | Philip Minj (INC) | 30,182 (5.6%) |
| Chapra | Bihar 1947 1999 | Ram Bahadur Singh (JNP) | Bhishmaprasad Yadav (INC) | 26,006 (5.7%) |
| Tirupathi | Andhra Pradesh 27 | Chinta Mohan (TDP) | Penchalaiah Pasala (INC) | 34,781 (5.8%) |
| Tumkur | Karnataka | G. S. Basavaraju (INC) | Y. K. Ramaiah (JNP) | 30,410 (5.8%) |
| Jalpaiguri | West Bengal | Manik Sanyal (CPM) | Arun Moitra (INC) | 33,172 (5.9%) |
| Hassan | Karnataka | H. N. Nanjegowda (INC) | K. B. Mallappa (JNP) | 31,969 (6.0%) |
| Chirayinkil | Kerala | Thalekkunnil Basheer (INC) | K. Sudhakaran (CPM) | 31,465 (6.0%) |
| Dhandhuka | Gujarat | Narsinhbhai Karsanbhai Makwana (INC) | Ratilal Kalidas Verma (BJP) | 22,616 (6.0%) |
| Nowgong | Assam | Muhiram Saikia (IND) | Haji Abdur Rouf (IND) | 35,630 (6.0%) |
| Durgapur | West Bengal | Purna Chandra Malik (CPM) | Gopal Mondal (INC) | 38,768 (6.1%) |
| Bapatla | Andhra Pradesh 27 | Chimata Sambu (TDP) | Rajeswara Rao Maddirala (INC) | 34,420 (6.2%) |
| Ratnagiri | Maharashtra | Husen Dalwai (INC) | Natu Shridhar Dattatrey (BJP) | 23,845 (6.2%) |
| Nalanda | Bihar 1947 1999 | Vijay Kumar Yadav (CPI) | Pankaj Kumar Sinha (INC) | 39,471 (6.3%) |
| Bhadrachalam | Andhra Pradesh 27 | Sode Ramaiah (CPI) | B.Radhabai Anandarao (INC) | 24,640 (6.3%) |
| Basirhat | West Bengal | Indrajit Gupta (CPI) | Kamal Basu (INC) | 39,043 (6.4%) |
| Alleppey | Kerala | Vakkon Purushothaman (INC) | Suseela Gopalan (CPM) | 37,764 (6.5%) |
| Morena | Madhya Pradesh 1947 1999 | Kammodilal Jatav (INC) | Munsilal (BJP) | 21,568 (6.6%) |
| Katwa | West Bengal | Saifuddin Chowdhury (CPM) | Chowdhury Siddiqullah (INC) | 43,450 (6.7%) |
| Constituency | Category | Winner | Runner-up | Vote share | Margin | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludhiana | GEN | Mewa Singh (sad) | — | — | 140 (0.0%) | — |
| Jagatsinghpur | GEN | Lakshman Mallick (inc) | — | — | 958 (0.2%) | — |
| Bikramganj | GEN | Tapeshwar Singh (inc) | — | — | 1,413 (0.2%) | — |
| Darjeeling | GEN | Ananda Prasad Pathak (cpm) | — | — | 1,389 (0.3%) | — |
| Mavelikkara | GEN | Thampan Thomas (jnp) | — | — | 1,287 (0.3%) | — |
| Sasaram | GEN | Jagjiwan Ram (icj) | — | — | 1,372 (0.3%) | — |
| Medak | GEN | P.manik Reddy (tdp) | — | — | 1,816 (0.3%) | — |
| Arunachal West | GEN | P.k.thangon (inc) | — | — | 461 (0.4%) | — |
| Dum Dum | GEN | Asutosh Law (inc) | — | — | 2,703 (0.4%) | — |
| Nagapattinam | GEN | Mahalingam, M. (adk) | — | — | 2,289 (0.4%) | — |
| Mathurapur | GEN | Manoranjan Halder (inc) | — | — | 2,299 (0.4%) | — |
| Berhampore | GEN | Atish Chandra Sinha (inc) | — | — | 3,047 (0.5%) | — |
| Nizamabad | GEN | Tadur Bala Goud (inc) | — | — | 2,447 (0.5%) | — |
| Gandhinagar | GEN | G.i.patel (inc) | — | — | 2,754 (0.5%) | — |
| Bijapur | GEN | Guraddi Shivashankareppa Mallappa (jnp) | — | — | 2,419 (0.6%) | — |
| Sonepat | GEN | Dharam Pal Singh (inc) | — | — | 2,941 (0.6%) | — |
| Hyderabad | GEN | Sultan Salahuddin Owaise (ind) | — | — | 3,481 (0.6%) | — |
| Azamgarh | GEN | Santosh Kumar Singh (inc) | — | — | 2,786 (0.7%) | — |
| Tripura West | GEN | Ajoy Biswas (cpm) | — | — | 3,520 (0.7%) | — |
| Chikkodi | GEN | B. Shankaranad (inc) | — | — | 3,645 (0.8%) | — |
| Diamond Harbour | GEN | Amal Datta (cpm) | — | — | 4,673 (0.8%) | — |
| Krishnagar | GEN | Renu Pada Das (cpm) | — | — | 4,787 (0.8%) | — |
| Murshidabad | GEN | Syed Musudal Hossain (cpm) | — | — | 6,262 (0.9%) | — |
| Nabadwip | GEN | Bibha Ghosh (goswami) (cpm) | — | — | 6,652 (1.0%) | — |
| Etah | GEN | Muhammad Mehfooj Ali Khan Alias Pyarey Main (lkd) | — | — | 3,431 (1.0%) | — |
| Kottayam | GEN | Suresh Kurup (cpm) | — | — | 5,853 (1.1%) | — |
| Chail | GEN | Bihari Lal Shailesh (inc) | — | — | 3,418 (1.1%) | — |
| Kanakapura | GEN | M. V. Chandrashekara Murthy (inc) | — | — | 7,026 (1.1%) | — |
| Kurnool | GEN | Erasu Ayyapu Reddy (tdp) | — | — | 7,290 (1.4%) | — |
| Sabarkantha | GEN | H.m.patel (jnp) | — | — | 6,759 (1.5%) | — |
| Warangal | GEN | T. Kalpana Devi (tdp) | — | — | 8,456 (1.6%) | — |
| Machilipatnam | GEN | Sambasivarao Kuvuru (inc) | — | — | 9,093 (1.7%) | — |
| Secunderabad | GEN | T.anjaiah (inc) | — | — | 8,474 (1.7%) | — |
| Hooghly | GEN | Indumati Bhattacharyya (inc) | — | — | 10,967 (1.7%) | — |
| Patan | GEN | Vankar Punamchand Mithabhai (inc) | — | — | 6,787 (1.8%) | — |
| Moradabad | GEN | Hafiz Mohd. Siddique (inc) | — | — | 7,113 (1.8%) | — |
| Barasat | GEN | Tarun Kanti Ghosh (inc) | — | — | 12,612 (1.8%) | — |
| Tamluk | GEN | Mishra Satyagopal (cpm) | — | — | 11,692 (1.9%) | — |
| Badagara | GEN | K. P. Unnikrishnan (ics) | — | — | 10,979 (1.9%) | — |
| Dhubri | GEN | Abdul Hamid (ind) | — | — | 11,818 (1.9%) | — |
| Kasaragod | GEN | I. Rama Rai (inc) | — | — | 11,369 (2.0%) | — |
| Guntur | GEN | N.g.ranga (inc) | — | — | 11,894 (2.0%) | — |
| Uluberia | GEN | Hannan Mollah (cpm) | — | — | 12,425 (2.0%) | — |
| Tenali | GEN | Nissankararao Venkataratnam (tdp) | — | — | 10,438 (2.0%) | — |
| Balrampur | GEN | Deep Narain Van Mahanth (inc) | — | — | 8,656 (2.2%) | — |
| Arambagh | GEN | Anil Basu (cpm) | — | — | 14,160 (2.2%) | — |
| Washim | GEN | Ghulam Nabi Azad (inc) | — | — | 10,359 (2.2%) | — |
| Vidisha | GEN | Pratapbhanu Krishna Gopal (inc) | — | — | 9,553 (2.2%) | — |
| Bagalkot | GEN | Patil Hanmantagouda Bhimanagouda (inc) | — | — | 10,512 (2.2%) | — |
| Kokrajhar | GEN | Samar Brahma Choudhury (ptc) | — | — | 13,764 (2.2%) | — |
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