Constituency
306. Jhabua
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1998
MP-JHABUA
INC 63.4%won by 34.3%BJP 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 49.1% to 34.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
57,303
Margin
19,634
34.26%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SMT. SWAROOP BAI BHABARIndian National Congress · INC36,32663.4%
- 2GANGA BAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,69229.1%
- 3HIRJI URF HARISINGH BHURIYAJanata Dal · JD3,9766.9%
- 4GUMAN BHAGATIndependent · IND3090.5%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −14.8%
- INC share
- 71.1% → 63.4%
- BJP share
- 22.0% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- — → —