Constituency
166. Khertha
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-KHERTHA
INC 44.4%won by 0.2%BJP 44.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.3% to 0.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 158 votes (0.19%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
82,607
Margin
158
0.19%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1SMT. PRATIMA CHANDRAKARIndian National Congress · INC36,67644.4%
- 2DR. BALMUKUND DEWANGANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP36,51844.2%
- 3DR. SHYAMKUMAR GANWARECMM · CMM5,3526.5%
- 4HEMLATA SAHUShiv Sena · SHS1,1121.3%
- 5DEVENDRA KUMAR SAHUJanata Dal · JD1,0281.2%
- 6PREMUGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP6480.8%
- 7KULDEEP KUMAR DESHMUK (PAPPU)CSP · CSP4750.6%
- 8SMT. ANJU SAHUIndependent · IND4330.5%
- 9KANMAL JAINSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2170.3%
- 10DEVENDRA KUMAR DESHMUKHIndependent · IND1480.2%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −15.1%
- INC share
- 52.3% → 44.4%
- BJP share
- 37.0% → 44.2%
- Turnout
- — → —