Constituency
17. Sarangarh
Community mirrorChhattisgarh · Chhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2018
CG-SARANGARH
INC 52.5%won by 27.0%BJP 25.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 27.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.9% to 52.5% of the vote here (+16.5%).
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
2,42,877
Turnout
79.9%
Valid votes
1,94,024
Margin
52,389
27.00%
Candidates
14 contested · winner INC- 1UTTARI GANPAT JANGDEIndian National Congress · INC1,01,83452.5%
- 2KERA BAI MANAHARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP49,44525.5%
- 3ARVIND KHATKERBahujan Samaj Party · BSP31,08316.0%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,3421.2%
- 5SANTOSHIIndependent · IND1,4760.8%
- 6KRISHNA CHAND BHARDVAJIndependent · IND1,1470.6%
- 7SANTOSH KUMAR CHAUHANIndependent · IND1,1390.6%
- 8DEVANAND NIRALABharatiya Bahujan Congress · BBC1,0760.6%
- 9SEEMA AJAYAPI · API1,0550.5%
- 10SUBHASH CHAUHANAam Aadmi Party · AAP1,0240.5%
- 11DHANKA NIRALAIndependent · IND7710.4%
- 12GHURAU SARTHIIndependent · IND7480.4%
- 13MANGAL PRASAD MAHESHBLRP · BLRP4950.3%
- 14RAVINDRA KUMAR RATRESUSP · SUSP3890.2%
Since 2013
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +35.6%
- INC share
- 35.9% → 52.5%
- BJP share
- 44.6% → 25.5%
- Turnout
- 81.9% → 79.9%