Constituency
98. Jashpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-JASHPUR
BJP 54.5%won by 16.6%INC 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.3% to 16.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.3% between them, down from 99.0% — the field split more ways.
- 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
69,519
Margin
11,519
16.57%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1VIKRAM BHAGATBharatiya Janata Party · BJP37,85554.5%
- 2RAM DEV BHAGATIndian National Congress · INC26,33637.9%
- 3SARHULIndependent · IND3,9945.7%
- 4TULASI BAIGAGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP9851.4%
- 5BRAHMADEV RAMIndependent · IND3490.5%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +16.2%
- BJP share
- 49.6% → 54.5%
- INC share
- 49.3% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- — → —