Constituency
55. Damoh
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 2008
MP-DAMOH
BJP 42.1%won by 0.1%INC 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.0% to 0.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 130 votes (0.11%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
1,19,938
Margin
130
0.11%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1JAYANT MALAIYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP50,48142.1%
- 2CHANDBHAN BHAIYAIndian National Congress · INC50,35142.0%
- 3ER. R.C. PATELBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,4717.1%
- 4SATYENDRA AGRAWALIndependent · IND1,5411.3%
- 5LOKESH SENIndependent · IND1,2701.1%
- 6CHANDRABHAN SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP1,2461.0%
- 7T.L. PRAJAPATIIndependent · IND1,2311.0%
- 8JOOJAR ALIGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP1,2041.0%
- 9KANNUIndependent · IND8880.7%
- 10SIYASHARAN ALIAS SHARANBJSH · BJSH8270.7%
- 11PANKAJ JAINIndependent · IND7370.6%
- 12MAKUNDI RAMRSMD · RSMD7290.6%
- 13CHANDRABHANIndependent · IND3600.3%
- 14ISHWAR CHANDGMS · GMS3430.3%
- 15SURENDRA VISHWAKARMAJanata Dal (United) · JDU2590.2%
Since 2003
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −9.9%
- BJP share
- 46.7% → 42.1%
- INC share
- 36.7% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- — → —