Constituency
87. Chitrakot
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-CHITRAKOT
BJP 34.7%won by 10.1%INC 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.9% to 10.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.3% between them, down from 68.1% — the field split more ways.
- 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
91,136
Margin
9,231
10.13%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1BAIDURAM KASHYAPBharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,64234.7%
- 2PRATIBHA SHAHIndian National Congress · INC22,41124.6%
- 3RAMNATH SARFECommunist Party of India · CPI16,87318.5%
- 4SUBHASH CHANDRA MORYAIndependent · IND7,6478.4%
- 5TULESHWAR NAGIndependent · IND3,7904.2%
- 6SADHURAM VETTYIndependent · IND2,6923.0%
- 7LAKHMU MANDAVIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6192.9%
- 8SURESH KUMARShiv Sena · SHS1,8382.0%
- 9RAJENDRA KUMAR KASHYAPIndependent · IND1,6241.8%
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
- +3.2%
- BJP share
- 37.5% → 34.7%
- INC share
- 30.6% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —