Constituency
229. Rajnandgaon
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-RAJNANDGAON
INCI 44.8%won by 21.5%JNP 23.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 21.5%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 44.8% of the vote here (+44.8%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 23.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.1% between them, down from 97.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.1% to 47.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,78,740
Turnout
47.0%
Valid votes
2,71,768
Margin
58,496
21.52%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INCI- 1SHIVENDRA BAHADUR SINGHINCI · INCI1,21,74744.8%
- 2J.P.L. FRANCISJanata Party · JNP63,25123.3%
- 3MADAN TIWARIJNPS · JNPS18,3036.7%
- 4LAL SHYAM SHAHIndependent · IND15,3435.6%
- 5VIDYA BHUSHAN THAKURIndependent · IND11,7394.3%
- 6TRIYOGINARAYAN TIWARI 'JUGGA MAHARAJ'Independent · IND10,7173.9%
- 7ABHAI CHAITANYA BRAHMCHARIIndependent · IND7,7702.9%
- 8NARMADA PRASAD JAGESHWAR PRASADIndependent · IND5,7042.1%
- 9RAM PRASAD AGARWALIndependent · IND5,5362.0%
- 10NIRMAL CHAND DESHLAHARAIndependent · IND5,0381.9%
- 11RAMJILALIndependent · IND3,8231.4%
- 12MOHAMMAD AFRZALIndependent · IND2,7971.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +21.5%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 44.8%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 23.3%
- Turnout
- 51.1% → 47.0%