Constituency
167. Balod
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
MP-BALOD
INC 57.6%won by 23.5%BJP 34.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 23.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.8% to 57.6% of the vote here (+22.8%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 34.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.7% of the vote between them, up from 79.1% — 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
41,507
Margin
9,756
23.50%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1HIRALAL SONBOIRIndian National Congress · INC23,91957.6%
- 2NARAYANRAO PAWARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,16334.1%
- 3BRIJNANDAN SINGHIndependent · IND2,4535.9%
- 4KHAMANLAL TIWARIIndependent · IND9722.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −11.3%
- INC share
- 34.8% → 57.6%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 34.1%
- Turnout
- — → —