Constituency
239. Bhopal South
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-BHOPAL-SOUTH
INC 51.6%won by 7.1%BJP 44.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.9% to 51.6% of the vote here (+21.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.1% of the vote between them, up from 83.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
2,02,400
Margin
14,289
7.06%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1P. C. SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC1,04,39251.6%
- 2SUHAS SHAILENDRA PRADHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP90,10344.5%
- 3SURESH GOTEKARIndependent · IND2,0641.0%
- 4BHASKARJanata Dal · JD1,1440.6%
- 5PRABHA DEVI JAINSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP9830.5%
- 6PRATIBHA BRAJESH SINGH TOMARIndependent · IND8720.4%
- 7MOHAN SINGH YADAVIndependent · IND6490.3%
- 8CHHOTELAL RAJAKBMRD · BMRD6330.3%
- 9MANMOHANIndependent · IND5530.3%
- 10SHAKUNTLASamajwadi Party · SP4420.2%
- 11MAHENDRA SINGH SOLANKILok Shakti · LS3380.2%
- 12DHANRAJShiv Sena · SHS2270.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +30.6%
- INC share
- 29.9% → 51.6%
- BJP share
- 53.5% → 44.5%
- Turnout
- — → —