Constituency
86. Jagdalpur
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-JAGDALPUR
BJP 48.1%won by 15.3%INC 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.4% to 15.3%.
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 8.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
1,14,344
Margin
17,524
15.33%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1SANTOSH BAFNABharatiya Janata Party · BJP55,00348.1%
- 2REKHCHAND JAINIndian National Congress · INC37,47932.8%
- 3MAHENDRA KUMAR SETHIYACommunist Party of India · CPI7,2276.3%
- 4SUDHANSHU SHEKHAR JHAIndependent · IND3,6183.2%
- 5HEMANT KUMAR POYAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,2181.9%
- 6REJESH CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND1,9041.7%
- 7KAMLESH SINGH THAKURBJSH · BJSH1,3421.2%
- 8RENUDHAR GADMIYAIndependent · IND1,1601.0%
- 9BHOLA BAGHELIndependent · IND6790.6%
- 10J.L. KASHYAPIndependent · IND6650.6%
- 11BRAJENDRA SINGHShiv Sena · SHS6620.6%
- 12GOPALDHAR YADAVCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL5470.5%
- 13BALESHWAR PASWANLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP4960.4%
- 14GOVARDHAN GHATGEIndependent · IND4650.4%
- 15SHANKAR KORRAMGMS · GMS4520.4%
- 16CHANDRABHAN DHRUVIndependent · IND4270.4%
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
- −13.0%
- BJP share
- 56.5% → 48.1%
- INC share
- 28.1% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- — → —