Constituency
99. Tapkara
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-TAPKARA
BJP 55.7%won by 14.9%INC 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.6% to 14.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.5% of the vote between them, up from 88.1% — 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
71,984
Margin
10,734
14.91%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BJP- 1NAND KUMAR SAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP40,08955.7%
- 2ISHWAR SAIIndian National Congress · INC29,35540.8%
- 3SUNILCommunist Party of India · CPI2,2463.1%
- 4MADHURI PAINKRAIndependent · IND2940.4%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +8.3%
- BJP share
- 47.3% → 55.7%
- INC share
- 40.7% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- — → —