Constituency
8. Ambah
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-AMBAH
BJP 33.9%won by 6.2%BSP 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.5% to 6.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.5% between them, down from 69.2% — 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
74,256
Margin
4,630
6.24%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1BANSHILAL JATAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP25,14833.9%
- 2AMAR SINGH SAKHWARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP20,51827.6%
- 3RADHESHYAM SAKHWARIndependent · IND13,72718.5%
- 4KAMMODILAL JATAVIndian National Congress · INC11,99416.2%
- 5RATIRAM HINDOLIYAAJBP · AJBP1,8532.5%
- 6GUMANI KORIIndependent · IND1,0161.4%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–BSP swing
- −2.2%
- BJP share
- 38.8% → 33.9%
- BSP share
- 30.4% → 27.6%
- Turnout
- — → —