Constituency
157. Ashta
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 2008
MP-ASHTA
BJP 44.1%won by 12.4%INC 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.9% to 12.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.8% of the vote between them, up from 68.7% — a tighter two-way 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
1,36,314
Margin
16,906
12.40%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1RANJEET-SINGH GUNWANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP60,13444.1%
- 2GOPAL SINGH ENGINEERIndian National Congress · INC43,22831.7%
- 3KAMAL SINGH CHOUHANPRSP · PRSP18,64413.7%
- 4BAPULAL MALVIYABahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,8083.5%
- 5RAMBA-BANSHILALIndependent · IND2,4061.8%
- 6DR. LAXMAN SINGH RAIKWALCommunist Party of India · CPI2,2391.6%
- 7SEWA RAMIndependent · IND2,1891.6%
- 8CHUNNILALBJSH · BJSH1,7951.3%
- 9PHOOL KUNWAR MALVIYAIndependent · IND8710.6%
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
- +4.5%
- BJP share
- 38.3% → 44.1%
- INC share
- 30.4% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —