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237. Raipur

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Madhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-RAIPUR

BJP 53.7%won by 12.1%INC 41.6%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 12.0% to 12.1%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.2% of the vote between them, up from 86.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 5.8% to 56.1%.

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

Electorate
11,77,144
Turnout
56.1%
Valid votes
6,60,930
Margin
80,060
12.11%

Candidates

14 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Ramesh BaisBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,54,73653.7%
  2. 2Jugal Kishore SahuIndian National Congress · INC2,74,67641.6%
  3. 3Dr. Pradeep KumarBahujan Samaj Party · BSP19,1582.9%
  4. 4Kunwar Singh KurreCSP · CSP2,7820.4%
  5. 5Rajkumar MandaviGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP2,0810.3%
  6. 6Narottam SharmaCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,0690.3%
  7. 7Ramesh KumarIndependent · IND1,1190.2%
  8. 8Vishnu SahuIndependent · IND1,0300.2%
  9. 9Deepak Singh ThakurIndependent · IND7890.1%
  10. 10Hanumant BaghSHSP · SHSP7250.1%
  11. 11Prakash GolchaAJBP · AJBP4920.1%
  12. 12Madhusudan MishrajiAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM4560.1%
  13. 13Wamanrao BagdeIndependent · IND4470.1%
  14. 14Shyamlal Chourasia GurujiIndependent · IND3700.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–INC swing
+0.1%
BJP share
49.4% → 53.7%
INC share
37.5% → 41.6%
Turnout
62.0% → 56.1%
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