Constituency
234. Budhni
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-BUDHNI
INC 46.8%won by 1.8%BJP 44.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 1.9% to 1.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.7% between them, down from 97.1% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
95,897
Margin
1,774
1.85%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1DEV KUMAR PATELIndian National Congress · INC44,85546.8%
- 2GURU PRASAD SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP43,08144.9%
- 3KRISHNA KUMARIndependent · IND4,8835.1%
- 4LAXMINARAYAN PAWARAJBP · AJBP1,4721.5%
- 5BHIM SHANKER ALIAS PRADEEP DUBEYJanata Dal · JD1,0401.1%
- 6NATHU PRASAD ARYA (MANJHI)Independent · IND5660.6%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −0.1%
- INC share
- 49.5% → 46.8%
- BJP share
- 47.6% → 44.9%
- Turnout
- — → —