Constituency
116. Bilaspur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-BILASPUR
BJP 42.6%won by 11.4%IND 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 11.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 37.4% to 42.6% of the vote here (+5.2%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 31.2% — it polled just 1.6% in 1993.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.8% between them, down from 90.4% — 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
96,184
Margin
10,955
11.39%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1AMAR AGRAWALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP40,99342.6%
- 2ANIL KUMAR TAHIndependent · IND30,03831.2%
- 3KRISHNA KUMAR YADAV (RAJU)Indian National Congress · INC21,96822.8%
- 4SUKHDEV SINGH THAKURAJBP · AJBP2,0052.1%
- 5CHANDAN SARKHELGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP4330.5%
- 6SHOBHALAL PRAJAPATIJanata Dal · JD3980.4%
- 7JASWANT AJMANIIndependent · IND3490.4%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–IND swing
- −24.4%
- BJP share
- 37.4% → 42.6%
- IND share
- 1.6% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —