Constituency
8. Samri
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-SAMRI
BJP 39.5%won by 24.1%IND 15.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.8% to 24.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.9% between them, down from 66.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,26,580
Margin
30,498
24.09%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1SIDDHA NATH PAIKRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP49,97239.5%
- 2CHINTAMANI MAHARAJIndependent · IND19,47415.4%
- 3MAHESHWAR RAM PAIKRAIndependent · IND18,32514.5%
- 4LALSAI MINJNationalist Congress Party · NCP8,0746.4%
- 5RADHESHYAMIndependent · IND6,7135.3%
- 6VISHWANATH RAM SANDILYACommunist Party of India · CPI4,2503.4%
- 7MEEKHOO TOPPOBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,4462.7%
- 8MAHENDRA RAM PAIKRAIndependent · IND2,9832.4%
- 9SOMNATH BHAGATLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP2,8162.2%
- 10JILESHWAR RAM LAKRAJanata Dal (United) · JDU2,1421.7%
- 11PRABHA BHAGATSamajwadi Party · SP1,8591.5%
- 12BASANT BHAGATIndependent · IND1,7171.4%
- 13DEVGANESH SINGH TEKAMIndependent · IND1,6471.3%
- 14MOHANShiv Sena · SHS1,6091.3%
- 15BERNADET MINJJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,5531.2%
Since 2003
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −14.8%
- BJP share
- 42.3% → 39.5%
- IND share
- 3.4% → 15.4%
- Turnout
- — → —