Constituency
242. Rajnandgaon
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-RAJNANDGAON
BJP 51.5%won by 4.5%INC 46.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 4.5%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 41.9% to 51.5% of the vote here (+9.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.4% of the vote between them, up from 92.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.0% to 58.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,16,713
Turnout
58.2%
Valid votes
5,91,992
Margin
26,715
4.51%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1Dr. RamanBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,04,61151.5%
- 2Motilal VoraIndian National Congress · INC2,77,89646.9%
- 3Deosingh NandeshwarIndependent · IND2,8470.5%
- 4Ramesh Kumar GondGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP2,7350.5%
- 5Dr. Smt. Sita Devi VaishnavaAJBP · AJBP2,5450.4%
- 6Dr. Meera BorkarIndependent · IND1,3580.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +13.2%
- BJP share
- 41.9% → 51.5%
- INC share
- 50.6% → 46.9%
- Turnout
- 62.2% → 58.2%