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All 117 seats in the Punjab Legislative Assembly 59 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 10,728,825 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 67.53% (2.17%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.