Constituency
160. Saja
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
MP-SAJA
INC 55.7%won by 42.1%BJP 13.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 42.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.4% to 55.7% of the vote here (+16.3%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 13.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.3% between them, down from 83.6% — the field split more ways.
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
38,952
Margin
16,403
42.11%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1KUMARI DEVI CHAUBEYIndian National Congress · INC21,69755.7%
- 2SATYANARAIN MISHRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,29413.6%
- 3JANARDAN SINGH THAKURJanata Party · JNP4,70612.1%
- 4PREMLAL SAHUIndependent · IND3,0727.9%
- 5DEOKISHAN MAHESHWARIIndependent · IND2,2035.7%
- 6NATHURAMIndependent · IND1,2783.3%
- 7SHEOKUMARJNPSR · JNPSR7021.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +2.7%
- INC share
- 39.4% → 55.7%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 13.6%
- Turnout
- — → —