Constituency
39. Saraipali
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-SARAIPALI
INC 50.5%won by 12.7%BJP 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 36.5% to 50.5% of the vote here (+14.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.2% of the vote between them, up from 80.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,27,747
Margin
16,222
12.70%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1DR. HARIDAS BHARDWAJIndian National Congress · INC64,45650.5%
- 2NIRA CHAUHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP48,23437.8%
- 3SMT. CHANDRAKANTABahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,8813.0%
- 4RAMPRASAD CHAUHANIndependent · IND3,4312.7%
- 5KAMAL PRASAD CHAUHANLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP1,6641.3%
- 6TARACHAND KUMAR (GURUIndependent · IND1,6341.3%
- 7RATAN SINGH KUMHARIndependent · IND1,3961.1%
- 8GHANSHYAM DEEPIndependent · IND1,1290.9%
- 9BASUDEV BAGHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD6650.5%
- 10DUKHU CHAUHANShiv Sena · SHS6620.5%
- 11KARTIKRAM CHAUHANIndependent · IND5950.5%
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
- +20.5%
- INC share
- 36.5% → 50.5%
- BJP share
- 44.2% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- — → —