Constituency
277. Sonkatch
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
MP-SONKATCH
INC 45.5%won by 2.0%BJP 43.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.7% to 45.5% of the vote here (+7.8%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 43.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.1% between them, down from 97.6% — 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
47,139
Margin
936
1.99%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BAPULAL KISHAN LAL MALVIYAIndian National Congress · INC21,46845.5%
- 2SURAJMAL BUNKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,53243.6%
- 3PRABHUDAYAL RESHWALIndependent · IND3,0346.4%
- 4DEVILAL BABULALJNPSC · JNPSC8341.8%
- 5KASHIRAM ARJUNJIINCU · INCU7121.5%
- 6BAGDIRAM KHUSHALIndependent · IND5591.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −35.7%
- INC share
- 37.7% → 45.5%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 43.6%
- Turnout
- — → —