Constituency
61. Gunderdehi
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-GUNDERDEHI
BJP 45.9%won by 1.9%INC 44.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.1% to 1.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.0% of the vote between them, up from 70.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
1,39,369
Margin
2,585
1.85%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1VIRENDRA KUMAR SAHUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP64,01045.9%
- 2GHANA RAM SAHUIndian National Congress · INC61,42544.1%
- 3INDAR BHAIYYABahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,7605.6%
- 4BANSHI LAL SONKARIndependent · IND3,4092.4%
- 5RAM PRASAD THAKURGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP2,7652.0%
Since 2003
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −7.2%
- BJP share
- 39.8% → 45.9%
- INC share
- 30.7% → 44.1%
- Turnout
- — → —