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57. Kurud

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Chhattisgarh · Chhattisgarh Assembly Election, 2018

CG-KURUD

BJP 42.3%won by 7.1%IND 35.1%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.9% to 7.1%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 35.1% — it polled just 1.1% in 2013.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.4% between them, down from 91.7% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
1,94,081
Turnout
88.9%
Valid votes
1,72,534
Margin
12,317
7.14%

Candidates

13 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1AJAY CHANDRAKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP72,92242.3%
  2. 2NEELAM CHANDRAKARIndependent · IND60,60535.1%
  3. 3LAXMIKANTA SAHUIndian National Congress · INC26,48315.3%
  4. 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,4702.0%
  5. 5KANHAIYA LAL SAHUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,8881.7%
  6. 6YUGESHWAR SAHUIndependent · IND1,3410.8%
  7. 7NEERA CHANDRAKARIndependent · IND1,2530.7%
  8. 8TEJENDRA KUMAR TODEKARAam Aadmi Party · AAP1,2520.7%
  9. 9AJIT AGRAWALIndependent · IND6720.4%
  10. 10DINESH SAHUIndependent · IND6090.4%
  11. 11CHANDRAHAS SAHUIndependent · IND3530.2%
  12. 12RAGHUNANDAN SAHUJanata Dal (United) · JDU3470.2%
  13. 13DOMAR SINGHIndependent · IND3390.2%

Since 2013

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–IND swing
−46.6%
BJP share
54.8% → 42.3%
IND share
1.1% → 35.1%
Turnout
88.6% → 88.9%
56. Sihawa58. Dhamtari
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