Constituency
248. Betul
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BETUL
BJP 50.5%won by 7.1%INC 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.5% to 7.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.0% of the vote between them, up from 82.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.2% to 59.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,51,991
Turnout
59.1%
Valid votes
5,62,159
Margin
39,666
7.06%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1VIJAY KUMAR KHANDELWAL (MUNNI BHAIYA)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,84,09150.5%
- 2DR. ASHOK SABLEIndian National Congress · INC2,44,42543.5%
- 3S.B. SIDAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP16,3752.9%
- 4K.S. KUMREGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP7,4981.3%
- 5TANTI BHAIYA CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND5,4191.0%
- 6VISHNU PRASAD GOURShiv Sena · SHS2,7190.5%
- 7PREMRAJ NATTHU \MODAK\AJBP · AJBP1,6320.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −15.4%
- BJP share
- 52.2% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 29.7% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- 52.9% → 59.1%