Constituency
162. Durg City
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-DURG-CITY
BJP 47.8%won by 2.1%INC 45.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 2.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 37.0% to 47.8% of the vote here (+10.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.5% of the vote between them, up from 86.2% — 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
1,54,335
Margin
3,279
2.12%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1HEMCHAND YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP73,76647.8%
- 2ARUN VORAIndian National Congress · INC70,48745.7%
- 3MAN SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,5402.9%
- 4DHARMENDRA SAHUCMM · CMM1,5361.0%
- 5KUMAR SINGH YADAVJanata Dal · JD8100.5%
- 6NOOR MOHAMMAD SIDDIQUISamajwadi Party · SP6500.4%
- 7ASHOK CHANDRAKAR KISSANIndependent · IND6110.4%
- 8RISHI KUMARIndependent · IND5690.4%
- 9MASTAR S.G. QURESHIIndependent · IND3990.3%
- 10SHIV RAM KESHARWANIShiv Sena · SHS2330.2%
- 11NARENDRA DASSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2190.1%
- 12SHYAMLAL CHAUHANCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1820.1%
- 13ANIL RASABMSD · ABMSD1280.1%
- 14JAHIDA PARVEENSHSP · SHSP1010.1%
- 15SARJOO PRASADIndependent · IND630.0%
- 16B. L. SHARMAIndependent · IND410.0%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +14.3%
- BJP share
- 37.0% → 47.8%
- INC share
- 49.2% → 45.7%
- Turnout
- — → —