Constituency
88. Dantewada
Community mirrorChhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2008
CG-DANTEWADA
BJP 38.1%won by 12.4%CPI 25.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 12.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 19.0% to 38.1% of the vote here (+19.0%).
- 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
96,722
Margin
12,008
12.41%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1BHIMA MANDAVIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP36,81338.1%
- 2MANISH KUNJAMCommunist Party of India · CPI24,80525.6%
- 3MAHENDRA KARMAIndian National Congress · INC24,25025.1%
- 4PRAMOD KUMAR VEKShiv Sena · SHS5,9356.1%
- 5LAKSHAMAN TELAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6822.8%
- 6ANOOP KUMAR TELAMLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP2,2372.3%
Since 2003
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–CPI swing
- +22.0%
- BJP share
- 19.0% → 38.1%
- CPI share
- 28.7% → 25.6%
- Turnout
- — → —