Constituency
212. Barghat
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-BARGHAT
BJP 44.6%won by 11.8%INC 32.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.2% to 11.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.5% between them, down from 91.0% — 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
89,687
Margin
10,548
11.76%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1DR.DALSINGH BISENBharatiya Janata Party · BJP40,03344.6%
- 2MAHANAND RAHANGDALEIndian National Congress · INC29,48532.9%
- 3BHOYARAM CHOUDHARIIndependent · IND15,26717.0%
- 4MOHD.ABDUL WAHEED ALIAS JAFAR PATELSamajwadi Party · SP3,5844.0%
- 5DEEPSINGH BATTIGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP7050.8%
- 6MAHENDRA GENDALAL MESHRAMIndependent · IND4070.5%
- 7DEVISINGH MADAVIIndependent · IND2060.2%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −3.4%
- BJP share
- 53.1% → 44.6%
- INC share
- 37.9% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- — → —