Constituency
232. Surguja
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-SURGUJA
INC 41.1%won by 1.4%BJP 39.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.4% to 1.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.7% between them, down from 89.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 24.6% to 60.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,46,615
Turnout
60.8%
Valid votes
6,36,211
Margin
8,771
1.38%
Candidates
14 contested · winner INC- 1KHELSAI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC2,61,21341.1%
- 2LARANGSAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,52,44239.7%
- 3JAGMANI DEVICommunist Party of India · CPI56,8938.9%
- 4BHANU PRATAP SINGHAIICT · AIICT21,3283.4%
- 5TULSIIndependent · IND13,3172.1%
- 6LAXMANIndependent · IND8,4391.3%
- 7BANARASIIndependent · IND5,1790.8%
- 8RAM ACHALIndependent · IND5,0070.8%
- 9SHANTA BAIIndependent · IND4,0250.6%
- 10SHIVPRASADIndependent · IND2,9740.5%
- 11SHIV BHAJANIndependent · IND1,8900.3%
- 12BHIM SAIN URAONIndependent · IND1,6350.3%
- 13MOHARASIIndependent · IND1,1060.2%
- 14SUKH LALIndependent · IND7630.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −13.0%
- INC share
- 51.9% → 41.1%
- BJP share
- 37.5% → 39.7%
- Turnout
- 36.2% → 60.8%