Constituency
49. Chhatarpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-CHHATARPUR
BJP 47.8%won by 12.2%INC 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 12.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 31.7% to 47.8% of the vote here (+16.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.4% of the vote between them, up from 65.3% — 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
1,05,089
Margin
12,816
12.20%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1UMESH SHUKLABharatiya Janata Party · BJP50,24447.8%
- 2ARJARIYA JAGDISHIndian National Congress · INC37,42835.6%
- 3GHASIRAMIndependent · IND5,8365.6%
- 4NIZAMUDDINSamajwadi Party · SP4,8374.6%
- 5MEERABahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,3603.2%
- 6SHEKH KALLOO THEKEDARJanata Dal · JD1,7351.7%
- 7BAHADUR SINGHIndependent · IND5160.5%
- 8AGRAWAL SWAMI PRASADIndependent · IND3910.4%
- 9RAMPRASAD KORIIndependent · IND3600.3%
- 10AHIRWAR RAMESH PRASADIndependent · IND2700.3%
- 11VINOD KUMARIndependent · IND1120.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +14.1%
- BJP share
- 31.7% → 47.8%
- INC share
- 33.6% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —