Constituency
50. Maharajpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-MAHARAJPUR
BJP 46.6%won by 15.6%INC 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.0% to 15.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.5% between them, down from 86.5% — 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
85,539
Margin
13,331
15.58%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1RAMDAYAL AHIRWARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP39,81946.6%
- 2AHIRWAR KHILAIYANIndian National Congress · INC26,48831.0%
- 3CHIRAIYASamajwadi Party · SP8,68310.2%
- 4AHIRWAR DASHRATHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,6407.8%
- 5MANIRAM AHIRWARJanata Dal · JD1,7242.0%
- 6REVALAL AHIRWARIndependent · IND1,6261.9%
- 7DASHRATH PRASAD AHIRWARBKDJ · BKDJ5590.7%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −2.5%
- BJP share
- 52.3% → 46.6%
- INC share
- 34.2% → 31.0%
- Turnout
- — → —