Constituency
81. Kanker
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-KANKER
BJP 44.9%won by 16.8%INC 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.3% to 16.8%.
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 10.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.9% between them, down from 81.9% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,04,299
Margin
17,503
16.78%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1SUMITRA MARKOLEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP46,79344.9%
- 2DR. PREETI NETAMIndian National Congress · INC29,29028.1%
- 3CHANDRA PRAKASH THAKURIndependent · IND10,97710.5%
- 4SULOCHANA MARASKOLEBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,2924.1%
- 5MOTIRAM MANDAVIIndependent · IND3,8383.7%
- 6HEMLAL NAGCommunist Party of India · CPI3,0823.0%
- 7RAMESH NETAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,1182.0%
- 8MANOHAR NETAMIndependent · IND1,0951.0%
- 9RAMESH KUMAR NARETIAll Pensioner’S Party · APP1,0381.0%
- 10RAMLAL KUNJAMCSP · CSP9090.9%
- 11RAKESH JURRIShiv Sena · SHS8670.8%
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
- −11.6%
- BJP share
- 55.1% → 44.9%
- INC share
- 26.8% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- — → —