Constituency
68. Saja
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-SAJA
INC 47.2%won by 3.7%BJP 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.4% to 3.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
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
1,35,037
Margin
5,055
3.74%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1RAVINDRA CHOUBEYIndian National Congress · INC63,77547.2%
- 2LABHCHAND BAPHNABharatiya Janata Party · BJP58,72043.5%
- 3MAKHAN LAL VERMABahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,0503.0%
- 4PREM LAL MANDAVIGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP2,5001.9%
- 5RAJENDRA PATELIndependent · IND2,4301.8%
- 6TULSI RAM LODHIIndependent · IND1,9421.4%
- 7UDHORAM SAHUCMM · CMM1,6201.2%
Since 2003
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −12.7%
- INC share
- 54.2% → 47.2%
- BJP share
- 37.8% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- — → —