Constituency
153. Chitrakot
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-CHITRAKOT
INC 37.6%won by 14.0%BJP 23.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.3% between them, down from 76.9% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered6 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
27,141
Margin
3,801
14.00%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1PRATIBHA SHAHIndian National Congress · INC10,21437.6%
- 2MENNABAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,41323.6%
- 3RAMURAM MAURYACommunist Party of India · CPI2,5769.5%
- 4BALRAM KASHYAPBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,3398.6%
- 5DINESH KUMARIndependent · IND2,3118.5%
- 6ROOPDHARIndependent · IND2,2288.2%
- 7MARVI PAKLUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6852.5%
- 8SHIVRAMGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP3751.4%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +14.1%
- INC share
- 38.4% → 37.6%
- BJP share
- 38.5% → 23.6%
- Turnout
- — → —