Constituency
188. Rajpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 2008
MP-RAJPUR
BJP 47.9%won by 7.2%INC 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.1% to 7.2%.
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 11.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
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
1,21,097
Margin
8,767
7.24%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1DEVISINGH PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP58,05247.9%
- 2SHAKUNTALA WASKALEIndian National Congress · INC49,28540.7%
- 3JAGANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,7053.1%
- 4KAMRED SUKHLAL GORECommunist Party of India · CPI3,3842.8%
- 5KALPANA PATELIndependent · IND2,9552.4%
- 6MOHANBJSH · BJSH2,1301.8%
- 7GIRDHARI SOLANKIAMS · AMS1,5861.3%
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
- −17.8%
- BJP share
- 59.3% → 47.9%
- INC share
- 34.3% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- — → —