Constituency
171. Dongargaon
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-DONGARGAON
INC 37.0%won by 1.3%BJP 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.1% to 1.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.7% between them, down from 85.6% — the field split more ways.
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
67,950
Margin
878
1.29%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1SMT. GITA DEVI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC25,12537.0%
- 2ASHOK SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,24735.7%
- 3IRSHAD BHAIIndependent · IND14,05820.7%
- 4SUBEDAR RAMJILALCSP · CSP1,0621.6%
- 5VIDYABHUSHAN THAKURSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1,0051.5%
- 6YOGESH DAS VAISHNAVJanata Dal · JD7561.1%
- 7VIJAY KOTDIYAAJBP · AJBP6400.9%
- 8TULESHWAR SAHUIndependent · IND5820.9%
- 9HARISH AHUJAIndependent · IND2500.4%
- 10SHRILAL SAHUIndependent · IND1140.2%
- 11SURESH GANDHISamajwadi Party · SP1110.2%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −0.8%
- INC share
- 43.9% → 37.0%
- BJP share
- 41.7% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- — → —