Constituency
195. Jabalpur East
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-JABALPUR-EAST
BJP 36.4%won by 2.4%INC 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.4% to 2.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.5% between them, down from 79.7% — 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
66,923
Margin
1,580
2.36%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1ANCHAL SONKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,36636.4%
- 2RAMESHIndian National Congress · INC22,78634.0%
- 3SONI MASTERJanata Dal · JD14,39221.5%
- 4C.L.BANSKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,6036.9%
- 5ADV RAJARAM CHOUDHARI ALAS RAJAJABALPURIShiv Sena · SHS2460.4%
- 6KAILASH SONKAR ADVOCATEIndependent · IND1300.2%
- 7ARVIND PAIGWARSamajwadi Party · SP1270.2%
- 8KAMTA BANSKARIndependent · IND1070.2%
- 9RAKESH KUMAR SONKARIndependent · IND850.1%
- 10JAIRAJ (RAJBHAI)RDNBP · RDNBP470.1%
- 11SHARDA PRASADIndependent · IND340.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −9.0%
- BJP share
- 45.5% → 36.4%
- INC share
- 34.1% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → —