Constituency
126. Raipur Town
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
MP-RAIPUR-TOWN
INC 63.1%won by 36.2%BJP 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 36.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.3% to 63.1% of the vote here (+32.8%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 26.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.9% of the vote between them, up from 71.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
36,356
Margin
13,166
36.21%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1SWARUPCHAN JAINIndian National Congress · INC22,92663.1%
- 2BALUBHAI PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,76026.8%
- 3SHANKAR DUBEJNPSC · JNPSC2,2766.3%
- 4NAND KUMAR PATHAKINCU · INCU3871.1%
- 5ABDUL GAFFARJanata Party · JNP3210.9%
- 6GIRIJASHANKARIndependent · IND2990.8%
- 7N. R. GOSWAMIRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP1440.4%
- 8NARESH AGGARWALIndependent · IND980.3%
- 9AFZAL AHMED RIZVI VAKILJNPSR · JNPSR650.2%
- 10BALMUKUND SHAHIndependent · IND450.1%
- 11PRATAP RAIIndependent · IND350.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +5.9%
- INC share
- 30.3% → 63.1%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- — → —