Constituency
149. Kondagaon
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-KONDAGAON
INC 53.7%won by 26.5%BJP 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.6% to 26.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.0% between them, down from 86.3% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
54,738
Margin
14,485
26.46%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SHANKAR SODIIndian National Congress · INC29,40553.7%
- 2MANGAL RAM USENDIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,92027.3%
- 3BASANT POYAMAJBP · AJBP6,72412.3%
- 4JANO BAIGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP2,1583.9%
- 5NARENDRA NETAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9071.7%
- 6SHATRUGHAN SINGH KODOPIIndependent · IND6241.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +16.8%
- INC share
- 48.0% → 53.7%
- BJP share
- 38.3% → 27.3%
- Turnout
- — → —