Constituency
148. Keskal
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-KESKAL
INC 45.8%won by 0.7%BJP 45.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 41.5% to 45.8% of the vote here (+4.3%).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 343 votes (0.65%) — 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
52,450
Margin
343
0.65%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1PHULO DEVI NETAMIndian National Congress · INC24,02945.8%
- 2MAHESH BAGHELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP23,68645.2%
- 3SUKALU RAM MANDAVICommunist Party of India · CPI3,0795.9%
- 4BAL SINGHGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP1,4812.8%
- 5SUBHASH MANJHIIndependent · IND1750.3%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +8.9%
- INC share
- 41.5% → 45.8%
- BJP share
- 49.7% → 45.2%
- Turnout
- — → —