Constituency
108. Kanker
Community mirrorChhattisgarh · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-KANKER
BJP 49.5%won by 13.3%INC 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.4% to 13.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.8% between them, down from 95.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 7.3% to 48.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,52,128
Turnout
48.1%
Valid votes
5,53,888
Margin
73,626
13.29%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1SOHAN POTAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,74,29449.5%
- 2MRS. GANGA POTAI THAKURIndian National Congress · INC2,00,66836.2%
- 3G.R.RANASamajwadi Party · SP28,9065.2%
- 4ARJUN SINGH THAKURBahujan Samaj Party · BSP17,6053.2%
- 5SUKHRANJAN USENDICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,4793.0%
- 6SUNDARLAL NETAMCSP · CSP15,9362.9%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −2.1%
- BJP share
- 55.4% → 49.5%
- INC share
- 40.0% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- 55.4% → 48.1%