Constituency
154. Dantewada
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-DANTEWADA
INC 43.8%won by 14.5%CPI 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.6% to 43.8% of the vote here (+6.1%).
- 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
38,488
Margin
5,573
14.48%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MAHENDRA KARMAIndian National Congress · INC16,85643.8%
- 2ARJUN SINGH KUNJAMCommunist Party of India · CPI11,28329.3%
- 3CHAMROOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,37324.4%
- 4ARJUN SINGHGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP9762.5%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +15.1%
- INC share
- 37.6% → 43.8%
- CPI share
- 38.3% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- — → —