Constituency
231. Betul
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-BETUL
INC 41.3%won by 12.6%BJP 28.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.8% to 12.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.9% between them, down from 96.0% — 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
74,705
Margin
9,406
12.59%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1VINOD DAGAIndian National Congress · INC30,82941.3%
- 2SHIV PRASAD RATHOREBharatiya Janata Party · BJP21,42328.7%
- 3RAJEEV G.D.KHANDELWALIndependent · IND19,10725.6%
- 4SMT.VRINDABAI NAGLESDPMP · SDPMP2,1402.9%
- 5SURESH RATHOREIndependent · IND1,2061.6%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −4.2%
- INC share
- 56.4% → 41.3%
- BJP share
- 39.6% → 28.7%
- Turnout
- — → —