Constituency
160. Raipur
Community mirrorRajasthan Assembly Election, 1998
RJ-RAIPUR
BJP 42.5%won by 8.2%INC 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.8% between them, down from 94.6% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 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
74,562
Margin
6,144
8.24%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1HIRA SINGH CHAOUHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,69442.5%
- 2C.D.DEWALIndian National Congress · INC25,55034.3%
- 3SUKHLAL SENCHAIndependent · IND7,56410.1%
- 4GORDHAN RAIKAIndependent · IND7,3959.9%
- 5KAN SINGHIndependent · IND1,2401.7%
- 6DAYA RAMSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP6870.9%
- 7MOTI LAL DEWASIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3470.5%
- 8KALU RAM SEERVIIndependent · IND850.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +21.4%
- BJP share
- 40.7% → 42.5%
- INC share
- 53.8% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- — → —