Constituency
99. Tapkara
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1993
MP-TAPKARA
BJP 47.3%won by 6.6%INC 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.7% to 6.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 40.7% — it did not contest here in 1990.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.1% of the vote between them, up from 81.5% — 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
52,257
Margin
3,444
6.59%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1VISHNUDEO SAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,73247.3%
- 2ISHWAR SAIIndian National Congress · INC21,28840.7%
- 3THEODOR EKKABahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,2396.2%
- 4ALEXIUSCommunist Party of India · CPI1,8923.6%
- 5MARTIN ANOOPJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM5661.1%
- 6MOTILALDDP · DDP5401.0%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −48.0%
- BJP share
- 54.6% → 47.3%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- — → —