Elections in the Republic of India in 1985 included elections to fourteen state legislative assemblies.
Source:
Source:
|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats Contested<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats Won<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change<br> |- | |align="left"|Janata Party||205||139||6,418,795||43.60%|| 44 |- | |align="left"|Indian National Congress||223||65||6,009,461||40.82%|| 17 |- | |align="left"|Communist Party of India||7||3||133,008||0.90%|| |- | |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||116||2||571,280||3.88%|| 16 |- | |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||7||2||127,333||0.86%|| 1 |- | |align="left"|Independents||1200||13||1,393,626||9.47%|| 9 |- | |align="left"|Total||1795||224||14,720,634|||| |-
Source:
|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change<br> |- | |align="left"|Indian National Congress||287||161||9,522,556||43.41%|| 25 |- | |align="left"|Indian National Congress (Socialist)||126||54||3,790,850||17.28%|| 54 |- | |align="left"|Janata Party||61||20||1,618,101||7.38%|| 20 |- | |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||67||16||1,590,351||7.25%|| 2 |- | |align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India||29||13||825,949||3.77%|| 4 |- | |align="left"|Communist Party of India||31||2||202,790||0.92%|| |- | |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||14||2||174,350||0.79%|| |- | |align="left"|Independents||1506||20||3,836,390||17.49%|| 10 |- | |align="left"|Total||2230||288||21,934,742|| || |-
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" | ! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats <br /> Contested !! Won !! Net Change <br /> in seats !! % of <br /> Seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in <br />vote % |- style="background: #90EE90;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | | 147 || 117
|| 1 || 79.59 || 40,07,258 || 51.08 || 3.3 |- | | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India (Marxist) | | 27 || 1 || - || 0.68 || 89,225 || 15.97 || - |- | | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Janata Party | | 67 || 1 || 1 || 0.68|| 2,04,346|| 5.66 || 1.43 |- | | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | | 27 || 1 || 3 || 0.68 || 2,59,508 || 16.12 || 13.4 |- | | style="text-align:left;" |Janata Party | | 140 || 21 || - || 14.28 || 24,01,566 || 32.03 || |- | | | 374 || 7 || N/A || 4.76 || 8,23,850 || 11.54 || N/A |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3| ! style="text-align:center;" |Total Seats !! 147 ( ) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 1,53,37,200 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|80,16,583 (52.27%)