Constituency
238. Mahasamund
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-MAHASAMUND
INC 49.9%won by 2.3%BJP 47.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.6% to 49.9% of the vote here (+7.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.6% of the vote between them, up from 92.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,71,547
Turnout
63.6%
Valid votes
6,82,047
Margin
15,435
2.26%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1Shyama Charan ShuklaIndian National Congress · INC3,40,63549.9%
- 2Chandra Shekhar Sahu \ Champu\Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,25,20047.7%
- 3Bhagwat KosariyaIndependent · IND5,7240.8%
- 4Goverdhan Prasad ChandrakarCSP · CSP5,3120.8%
- 5Ram Lal ChakradhariAJBP · AJBP2,6160.4%
- 6Ganpat SaraipaliIndependent · IND2,5600.4%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +9.4%
- INC share
- 42.6% → 49.9%
- BJP share
- 49.8% → 47.7%
- Turnout
- 64.7% → 63.6%