Constituency
167. Balod
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-BALOD
BJP 45.3%won by 4.9%INC 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 4.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.8% between them, down from 92.9% — the field split more ways.
- 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
1,07,485
Margin
5,241
4.88%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1LOKENDRA YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP48,73845.3%
- 2JALAM SINGH PATELIndian National Congress · INC43,49740.5%
- 3BHAGIRATHIGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP9,4158.8%
- 4ANJOR SINGH THAKURCMM · CMM3,0822.9%
- 5RAVI KUMAR SHARMACSP · CSP8870.8%
- 6HIRAMANSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP6960.6%
- 7RAMJAN KHANSamajwadi Party · SP6060.6%
- 8RAMDAYALIndependent · IND2930.3%
- 9SURESH KUMARIndependent · IND2710.3%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +7.5%
- BJP share
- 45.1% → 45.3%
- INC share
- 47.8% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —