Constituency
56. Sihawa
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-SIHAWA
INC 46.0%won by 12.2%BJP 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.9% to 46.0% of the vote here (+16.1%).
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,21,945
Margin
14,896
12.22%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1AMBIKA MARKAMIndian National Congress · INC56,04846.0%
- 2PINKY SHIVRAJ SHAHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP41,15233.7%
- 3MAYARAM NAGVANSHIGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP11,6649.6%
- 4PURAN SINGH NETAMIndependent · IND6,5305.4%
- 5NARESH KUMAR MANDAVIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,8531.5%
- 6RAM PRASAD NETAMLSWP · LSWP1,8401.5%
- 7GOVIND SINGH MARKAMIndependent · IND1,5911.3%
- 8DULESH KUMAR MARKAMIndependent · IND1,2671.0%
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
- +27.4%
- INC share
- 29.9% → 46.0%
- BJP share
- 45.1% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —