Constituency
240. Bastar
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BASTAR
BJP 42.3%won by 4.7%INC 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 4.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 21.9% to 42.3% of the vote here (+20.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.8% of the vote between them, up from 60.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.4% to 38.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,31,368
Turnout
38.5%
Valid votes
3,58,371
Margin
16,881
4.71%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1BALIRAM KASHYAPBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,51,48442.3%
- 2MANKURAM SODIIndian National Congress · INC1,34,60337.6%
- 3MANISH KUNJAMCommunist Party of India · CPI56,50215.8%
- 4SAMPATSINGH BHANDARIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP14,0443.9%
- 5PURAN SINGH MANJHIAJBP · AJBP1,7380.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +11.4%
- BJP share
- 21.9% → 42.3%
- INC share
- 28.5% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- 41.9% → 38.5%