Constituency
42. Mahasamund
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-MAHASAMUND
INC 45.9%won by 4.4%BJP 41.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.3% to 45.9% of the vote here (+8.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.5% of the vote between them, up from 76.1% — 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
1,14,637
Margin
5,044
4.40%
Candidates
16 contested · winner INC- 1AGNI CHANDRAKARIndian National Congress · INC52,66745.9%
- 2MOTI LAL SAHUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,62341.5%
- 3SUSHMA PANIKARIndependent · IND3,7153.2%
- 4BASANT SINHABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,9612.6%
- 5RADHESHYAM SENIndependent · IND2,2612.0%
- 6PREMGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP1,2271.1%
- 7SANTRAM SAHUIndependent · IND7320.6%
- 8MOTI SAHUIndependent · IND6270.5%
- 9ASHOK SONILoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP6210.5%
- 10BHUNESHWAR SAHUIndependent · IND5870.5%
- 11KHUJAB KUMAR (BHORING)Independent · IND4040.4%
- 12BRIJMOHAN PATELLSWP · LSWP3760.3%
- 13GANGA PRASAD SONTAKEIndependent · IND2390.2%
- 14RAKESH CHANDRAKARShiv Sena · SHS2250.2%
- 15DHANESHWAR NISHADCSP · CSP2060.2%
- 16GANGA BAI-AADIWASIApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD1660.1%
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
- +5.9%
- INC share
- 37.3% → 45.9%
- BJP share
- 38.8% → 41.5%
- Turnout
- — → —