Constituency
243. Balaghat
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BALAGHAT
BJP 40.3%won by 4.3%INC 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 4.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 30.7% to 40.3% of the vote here (+9.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.3% of the vote between them, up from 61.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.2% to 68.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,67,106
Turnout
68.8%
Valid votes
5,96,131
Margin
25,531
4.28%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1GAURISHANKAR CHATURBHUJ BISENBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,40,06640.3%
- 2VISHAVESHWAR BHAGATIndian National Congress · INC2,14,53536.0%
- 3KANKER MUNJARESamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP86,27714.5%
- 4AD. K.D.L. CHOUREBahujan Samaj Party · BSP36,2126.1%
- 5RAJESH KUMAR GUPTAAJBP · AJBP10,5401.8%
- 6DR. R.D. KATHANEIndependent · IND2,8630.5%
- 7MOOLAKRAJ ANANDIndependent · IND2,1370.4%
- 8SUDHAKAR SHARMASVSP · SVSP2,1050.4%
- 9GOVARDHAN PATLE ALIAS HITLARIndependent · IND1,3960.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +4.5%
- BJP share
- 30.7% → 40.3%
- INC share
- 30.9% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- 64.6% → 68.8%