Constituency
208. Gotegaon
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-GOTEGAON
INC 50.2%won by 9.9%BJP 40.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.9% to 9.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.5% between them, down from 95.6% — 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
82,696
Margin
8,146
9.85%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SHEKHAR CHAUDHARYIndian National Congress · INC41,49950.2%
- 2BAINI PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP33,35340.3%
- 3KAMLAGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP4,4315.4%
- 4BEERENDRAJanata Dal · JD1,4531.8%
- 5BALARAM AHIRWARIndependent · IND9181.1%
- 6GULAB SINGHIndependent · IND5390.7%
- 7LAXMIBAIIndependent · IND5030.6%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −7.0%
- INC share
- 56.2% → 50.2%
- BJP share
- 39.4% → 40.3%
- Turnout
- — → —