Constituency
10. Ambikapur
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-AMBIKAPUR
INC 42.1%won by 0.7%BJP 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 23.2% to 42.1% of the vote here (+18.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.5% of the vote between them, up from 76.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,33,083
Margin
980
0.74%
Candidates
16 contested · winner INC- 1T S BABAIndian National Congress · INC56,04342.1%
- 2ANURAG SINGH DEVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP55,06341.4%
- 3JAINATH KERAMGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP6,0784.6%
- 4AMAR NATH PANDEYCommunist Party of India · CPI2,8852.2%
- 5RAMNAYAK MAURYAIndependent · IND2,6982.0%
- 6KUMKUM BHATNAGARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,2581.7%
- 7JHAMEKESHWAR PAIKRAIndependent · IND1,3921.0%
- 8AJAY SINGHIndependent · IND1,2500.9%
- 9ANNA NAIDUJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,0250.8%
- 10KRIPADANI TOPPOIndependent · IND9300.7%
- 11DAKHAL RAMIndependent · IND7370.6%
- 12NILESH SINGHShiv Sena · SHS7070.5%
- 13TRIBHUWAN SHARMAIndependent · IND5850.4%
- 14ALAM SINGH CARPYRGOP · RGOP5180.4%
- 15VIJAY PATELJanata Dal (United) · JDU4660.4%
- 16ASHWANI SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP4480.3%
Since 2003
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +30.9%
- INC share
- 23.2% → 42.1%
- BJP share
- 53.3% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- — → —