Constituency
232. Surguja
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-SURGUJA
BJP 44.5%won by 3.1%INC 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 3.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 39.7% to 44.5% of the vote here (+4.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.9% of the vote between them, up from 80.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.3% to 63.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,52,905
Turnout
63.1%
Valid votes
6,64,248
Margin
20,620
3.10%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1LARANG SAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,95,45244.5%
- 2KHEL SAI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC2,74,83241.4%
- 3JAGMANI DEVICommunist Party of India · CPI42,0606.3%
- 4LAKSHMANSINGH UDAYGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP34,7765.2%
- 5DASHRURAMIndependent · IND7,3091.1%
- 6NANDUIndependent · IND4,4940.7%
- 7JAGDISH SINGH BARAIKAJBP · AJBP3,6580.6%
- 8BENARSIIndependent · IND1,6670.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +4.5%
- BJP share
- 39.7% → 44.5%
- INC share
- 41.1% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- 60.8% → 63.1%