Constituency
151. Jagdalpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-JAGDALPUR
INC 51.1%won by 4.5%BJP 46.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.6% to 4.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.7% of the vote between them, up from 86.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
73,575
Margin
3,314
4.50%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1JHITARURAM BAGHELIndian National Congress · INC37,60751.1%
- 2LAKHESHWAR BAGHELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP34,29346.6%
- 3MANOJ SAHNIIndependent · IND1,6752.3%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −22.1%
- INC share
- 56.3% → 51.1%
- BJP share
- 29.7% → 46.6%
- Turnout
- — → —