Constituency
153. Chitrakot
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1993
MP-CHITRAKOT
BJP 38.5%won by 0.1%INC 38.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.6% to 0.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 28 votes (0.12%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
22,739
Margin
28
0.12%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1DHANIRAM PUJARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,75838.5%
- 2AKTURAM NAGIndian National Congress · INC8,73038.4%
- 3SITARAM KARMACommunist Party of India · CPI2,58711.4%
- 4RAMA KONDABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,0909.2%
- 5LOKNATHDDP · DDP5742.5%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −22.5%
- BJP share
- 47.7% → 38.5%
- INC share
- 25.1% → 38.4%
- Turnout
- — → —