1996 Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh

In the 1996 Indian general election for Madhya Pradesh polls were held for 40 seats in the state. The result was a major victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which won 27 seats.Indian National Congress (INC) fared poorly in this election and managed to won only 8 seats.^[1]

Result

Results of Indian general election, 1996 in Madhya Pradesh^[2]
Parties and coalitions		Seats			Popular vote
Parties and coalitions		Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%	±pp
	Bharatiya Janata Party	39	27	15	94,72,940	41.32%	0.56%
	Indian National Congress	40	8	19	71,11,753	31.02%	14.32%
	Bahujan Samaj Party	28	2	1	18,74,594	8.18%	4.64%
	All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)	33	1	New	10,78,589	4.7%	New
	Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress	1	1	New	3,37,539	1.47%	New
	Independents	1046	1	1	21,94,115	9.57%	6.27%

Total		40			2,29,24,872
Invalid votes		8,20,541	3.46
Votes cast / turnout		2,37,48,322	54.06
Registered voters		4,39,27,252	100.00

Constituency-wise results

No.	Constituency	Type	Name of Elected M.P.
1	Morena	SC	Ashok Chhabiram	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Bhind	GEN	Dr. Ramlakhan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Gwalior	GEN	Madhavrao Scindia	Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress
4	Guna	GEN	Rajmata Vijayraje Scindia	Bharatiya Janata Party
5	Sagar	SC	Virendra Kumar
6	Khajuraho	GEN	Uma Bharti
7	Damoh	GEN	Dr. Ramakrishna Kusmaria
8	Satna	GEN	Sukhlal Kushwaha	Bahujan Samaj Party
9	Rewa	GEN	Budhsen Patel	Bahujan Samaj Party
10	Sidhi	ST	Tilak Raj Singh	All India Indira Congress
11	Shahdol	ST	Gyan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
12	Surguja	ST	Khelsai Singh	Indian National Congress
13	Raigarh	ST	Nand Kumar Sai	Bharatiya Janata Party
14	Janjgir	GEN	Manharan Lal Pandey
15	Bilaspur	SC	Punnulal Mohle
16	Sarangarh	SC	Paras Ram Bhardwaj	Indian National Congress
17	Raipur	GEN	Ramesh Bais	Bharatiya Janata Party
18	Mahasamund	GEN	Pawan Diwan	Indian National Congress
19	Kanker	ST	Chhabila Netam	Indian National Congress
20	Bastar	ST	Mahendra Karma	Independent politician
21	Durg	GEN	Tarachand Sahu	Bharatiya Janata Party
22	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Ashok Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party
23	Balaghat	GEN	Vishweshar Bhagat	Indian National Congress
24	Mandla	ST	Faggan Singh Kulaste	Bharatiya Janata Party
25	Jabalpur	GEN	Baburao Paranjpe
26	Seoni	GEN	Prahlad Singh Patel
27	Chhindwara	GEN	Alka Nath	Indian National Congress
28	Betul	GEN	Vijay Kumar Khandelwal	Bharatiya Janata Party
29	Hoshangabad	GEN	Sartaj Singh
30	Bhopal	GEN	Sushil Chandra Verma
31	Vidisha	GEN	Shivraj Singh Chouhan
32	Rajgarh	GEN	Lakshman Singh	Indian National Congress
33	Shajapur	SC	Thawar Chand Gehlot	Bharatiya Janata Party
34	Khandwa	GEN	Nand Kumar Singh Chauhan
35	Khargone	GEN	Rameshwar Patidar
36	Dhar	ST	Chhatar Singh Darbar
37	Indore	GEN	Sumitra Mahajan
38	Ujjain	SC	Satyanarayan Jatiya
39	Jhabua	ST	Dileep Singh Bhuria	Indian National Congress
40	Mandsaur	GEN	Dr. Laxminarayan Pandey	Bharatiya Janata Party

References

^ STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1996 TO THE ELEVENTH LOK SABHA, VOLUME 1 (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer — Madhya Pradesh (Report). Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
^ "1996 में पहली बार सबसे बड़ी पार्टी बनकर उभरी भाजपा, 13 दिन के लिए पीएम बने अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 7 April 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2024.

External links

Election Commission of India

[1] STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1996 TO THE ELEVENTH LOK SABHA, VOLUME 1 (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer — Madhya Pradesh (Report). Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2024.

[2] "1996 में पहली बार सबसे बड़ी पार्टी बनकर उभरी भाजपा, 13 दिन के लिए पीएम बने अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 7 April 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2024.

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