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235. Bilaspur

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Madhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-BILASPUR

BJP 52.3%won by 14.3%INC 37.9%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.4% to 14.3%.

  • TurnoutTurnout fell 7.3% to 47.5%.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
11,07,061
Turnout
47.5%
Valid votes
5,25,808
Margin
75,333
14.33%

Candidates

8 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Punnulal MohaleBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,74,86052.3%
  2. 2Rameshwar KosariyaIndian National Congress · INC1,99,52737.9%
  3. 3Goutiya Anjor Das PatelBahujan Samaj Party · BSP37,1387.1%
  4. 4Santosh Kumar RaiGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP8,2011.6%
  5. 5Rajesh Kumar SonwaniSamajwadi Party · SP2,6160.5%
  6. 6Baldev Prasad BaghelNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,9820.4%
  7. 7Veena Pani PaswanAJBP · AJBP9940.2%
  8. 8TardasIndependent · IND4900.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–INC swing
+5.9%
BJP share
47.6% → 52.3%
INC share
39.2% → 37.9%
Turnout
54.8% → 47.5%
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