Constituency
40. Surkhi
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-SURKHI
BJP 46.2%won by 0.2%INC 46.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.8% to 0.2%.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 193 votes (0.22%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
89,354
Margin
193
0.22%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1BHUPENDRA SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP41,27846.2%
- 2GOVIND SINGH RAJPOOTIndian National Congress · INC41,08546.0%
- 3ABDUL NASEEM KHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,1515.8%
- 4SHIV SHANKAR KATAREAJBP · AJBP6730.8%
- 5DR.MAHESH TIWARISamajwadi Party · SP5500.6%
- 6MOHAN KUSHWAHAApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD3690.4%
- 7JAHAR SINGHIndependent · IND1620.2%
- 8BHUPENDRA SINGH RISHIKUMARIndependent · IND860.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −7.6%
- BJP share
- 47.9% → 46.2%
- INC share
- 40.1% → 46.0%
- Turnout
- — → —