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121. Pamgarh

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Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998

MP-PAMGARH

BSP 33.6%won by 0.1%BJP 33.5%

What changed here

Derived

Bahujan Samaj Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.8% to 0.1%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.0% of the vote between them, up from 56.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 86 votes (0.09%) — among the closest results anywhere.
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
1,00,370
Margin
86
0.09%

Candidates

9 contested · winner BSP
  1. 1DAURAM RATNAKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP33,68333.6%
  2. 2SHAKUNTALA SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP33,59733.5%
  3. 3ASHA SAHUIndian National Congress · INC28,20928.1%
  4. 4DHANRAJ KASHYAPApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD2,2042.2%
  5. 5A.RASEED (PAPPU)Janata Dal · JD9601.0%
  6. 6MAHAVEER SAHUIndependent · IND8310.8%
  7. 7DEVCHARAN PRASAD CHAUHANIndependent · IND6280.6%
  8. 8JEEVAN LALIndependent · IND1620.2%
  9. 9THANDARAM RATRERPI · RPI960.1%

Since 1993

Derived
Winner then
BSP
Winner now
BSP
BSP–BJP swing
−7.7%
BSP share
32.3% → 33.6%
BJP share
24.6% → 33.5%
Turnout
— → —
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