Constituency
239. Kanker
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-KANKER
BJP 46.0%won by 9.3%INC 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 9.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 35.3% to 46.0% of the vote here (+10.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.7% of the vote between them, up from 75.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.5% to 58.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,99,132
Turnout
58.8%
Valid votes
5,87,568
Margin
54,370
9.25%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1SOHAN POTAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,70,12146.0%
- 2MAHENDRA KARMAIndian National Congress · INC2,15,75136.7%
- 3ARVIND NETAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP39,6226.7%
- 4RAMNATH SARFECommunist Party of India · CPI28,5364.9%
- 5ANJOR SINGH GONDCMM · CMM20,9283.6%
- 6AMALSAI SORIGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP5,5901.0%
- 7AVINASH THAKURJanata Dal · JD5,0060.9%
- 8DAUWA RAMBKKGP · BKKGP2,0140.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +13.7%
- BJP share
- 35.3% → 46.0%
- INC share
- 39.8% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- 56.3% → 58.8%