Constituency
236. Ashta
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-ASHTA
BJP 45.5%won by 9.2%INC 36.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.9% to 9.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.8% between them, down from 94.4% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
88,088
Margin
8,061
9.15%
Candidates
3 contested · winner BJP- 1RANJIT SINGH GUNWANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP40,06645.5%
- 2BAPULAL MALVIYAIndian National Congress · INC32,00536.3%
- 3PHOOL SINGH CHOUHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP16,01718.2%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −4.7%
- BJP share
- 54.1% → 45.5%
- INC share
- 40.2% → 36.3%
- Turnout
- — → —