Constituency
45. Baloda Bazar
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-BALODA-BAZAR
BJP 41.8%won by 3.8%INC 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 3.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 20.2% to 41.8% of the vote here (+21.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.8% of the vote between them, up from 40.8% — 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
1,35,906
Margin
5,182
3.81%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1LAXMI BAGHELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP56,78841.8%
- 2GANESH SHANKAR BAJPAIIndian National Congress · INC51,60638.0%
- 3MAHENDRA KASHYAP (C.A.)Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP16,18811.9%
- 4VINOD NAGWANSHIGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP4,1753.1%
- 5SMT. SUSHIL BAI BANJAREIndependent · IND3,7762.8%
- 6K.K. VERMASamajwadi Party · SP1,3661.0%
- 7RAKESH PATKAR(NCC WALA)Independent · IND1,2600.9%
- 8VIJAY KEDIYACGVP · CGVP7470.5%
Since 2003
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +4.1%
- BJP share
- 20.2% → 41.8%
- INC share
- 20.5% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —