Constituency
120. Akaltara
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-AKALTARA
BJP 37.7%won by 10.1%INC 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.4% to 10.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 65.3% of the vote between them, up from 58.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
93,595
Margin
9,482
10.13%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1CHHATRAM DEWANGANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP35,28137.7%
- 2DR.RAKESH KUMAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC25,79927.6%
- 3JAYNARAYAN CHAUKSEYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP24,76126.5%
- 4RAMNATH SINGH MARAVIIndependent · IND1,9862.1%
- 5KAUSHAL PRASADIndependent · IND1,2131.3%
- 6BIRENDRA KUMAR KASHYAPApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD9951.1%
- 7RAJKUMARIndependent · IND9671.0%
- 8VINOD KUMAR SHUKLAAJBP · AJBP9461.0%
- 9REWATIRAMAN TIWARIIndependent · IND8480.9%
- 10SATISH DHIRAHIJanata Dal · JD4810.5%
- 11MOHAN LALIndependent · IND2190.2%
- 12KISHOR KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND990.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +5.7%
- BJP share
- 31.6% → 37.7%
- INC share
- 27.2% → 27.6%
- Turnout
- — → —