Constituency
250. Bhopal
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BHOPAL
BJP 57.4%won by 22.5%INC 34.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.0% to 22.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.3% of the vote between them, up from 77.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 8.8% to 58.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,83,592
Turnout
58.0%
Valid votes
8,60,917
Margin
1,93,932
22.53%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1SUSHIL CHANDRA VERMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,94,48157.4%
- 2ARIF BAIGIndian National Congress · INC3,00,54934.9%
- 3MANOJ SHRIVASTAVABahujan Samaj Party · BSP34,5264.0%
- 4SHAILENDRA KUMAR \SHAILY\Communist Party of India · CPI15,4231.8%
- 5N.S. VAKODERPI · RPI2,9620.3%
- 6ROOP KHATIKIndependent · IND2,3080.3%
- 7BHIM RAJIndependent · IND2,2300.3%
- 8SY. ABDUL QAYUMIndependent · IND1,8040.2%
- 9KAMESHWAR SINGH PATELApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD1,5510.2%
- 10RAJENDRA JAINSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1,2760.1%
- 11REVTI SINGHGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP1,1220.1%
- 12ER. K.K. ARGAL (KHARE)SVSP · SVSP1,0230.1%
- 13SHEIKHA QADIRIndependent · IND9010.1%
- 14YOGESH KUMAR .T. PANCHOLIAJBP · AJBP3980.0%
- 15DURGA PRASAD DIWVEDIBAJP · BAJP3630.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +1.5%
- BJP share
- 49.3% → 57.4%
- INC share
- 28.2% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- 49.3% → 58.0%