1998 Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh
General Election in Madhya Pradesh
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In the 1998 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 30 seats. The remaining 10 seats were won by Indian National Congress (INC).
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Feb 1998
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Parties and alliances
National Democratic Alliance
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
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| Bharatiya Janata Party |  |
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L. K. Advani | 40 | |
Indian National Congress
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
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| Indian National Congress |  |
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Madhavrao Scindia | 40 | |
Others
| Party | flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
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| Bahujan Samaj Party |  |
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Mayawati | 35 | |
| Gondwana Ganatantra Party |  |
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Hira Singh Markam | 18 | |
| Janata Party | |
Subramanian Swamy | 18 | ||
| Samajwadi Party |  |
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Mulayam Singh Yadav | 12 | |
Result
| Parties and coalitions | Seats | Popular vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contested | Won | +/− | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 40 | 30 |  3 |
1,23,15,405 | 45.73% | 4.41% | |
| Indian National Congress | 40 | 10 | 2 |
1,06,11,317 | 39.4% | 8.38% | |
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 35 | 0 | - | 23,43,027 | 8.7% | 0.52% | |
| Janata Party | 18 | 0 | - | 3,28,989 | 1.22% | 1.14% | |
| Samajwadi Party | 12 | 0 | - | 1,75,461 | 0.65% | 0.57% | |
| Gondwana Ganatantra Party | 12 | 0 | - | 1,78,447 | 0.66% | 0.62% | |
| Independents | 128 | 0 | - | 3,55,110 | 1.32% |  8.25% | |
| Total | 40 | 2,69,30,007 | |||||
| Invalid votes | 6,06,377 | 2.2 | |||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 2,75,41,607 | 61.74 | |||||
| Registered voters | 4,46,07,368 | 100.00 | |||||
Constituency-wise results
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | ||||||||||
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| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 1 | Morena (SC) | Ashok Chhabiram | BJP | 2,77,499 | 43.44 | Pritam Prasad | BSP | 2,09,378 | 32.77 | 68,121 | 10.67 | ||
| 2 | Bhind | Dr. Ram Lakhan Singh | BJP | 2,92,682 | 42.27 | Kedar Nath Kachhi | BSP | 1,93,774 | 27.99 | 98,908 | 14.28 | ||
| 3 | Gwalior | Madhavrao Scindia | INC | 2,84,365 | 39.77 | Jaybhan Singh Pavaiya | BJP | 2,58,086 | 36.09 | 26,279 | 3.68 | ||
| 4 | Guna | Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia | BJP | 3,36,151 | 46.67 | Devendra Singh | INC | 2,33,153 | 32.37 | 1,02,998 | 14.30 | ||
| 5 | Sagar (SC) | Virendra Kumar | BJP | 3,36,638 | 56.99 | Nandlal Parmanand Choudhary | INC | 1,88,234 | 31.87 | 1,48,404 | 25.12 | ||
| 6 | Khajuraho | Uma Bharti | BJP | 3,51,607 | 43.40 | Shriram | INC | 2,47,760 | 30.58 | 1,03,847 | 12.82 | ||
| 7 | Damoh | Dr. Ramkrishna Kusmaria | BJP | 3,12,057 | 44.40 | Nareshchand | INC | 1,81,459 | 25.82 | 1,30,598 | 18.58 | ||
| 8 | Satna | Ramanand Singh | BJP | 2,63,011 | 36.58 | Rajendra Kumar Singh | INC | 2,18,526 | 30.39 | 44,485 | 6.19 | ||
| 9 | Rewa | Chandramani Tripathi | BJP | 2,76,367 | 36.68 | Bhim Singh Patel | BSP | 2,07,394 | 27.53 | 68,973 | 9.15 | ||
| 10 | Sidhi (ST) | Jagannath Singh | BJP | 2,75,803 | 38.89 | Tilak Raj Singh | INC | 2,29,271 | 32.33 | 46,532 | 6.56 | ||
| 11 | Shahdol (ST) | Gyan Singh | BJP | 2,96,764 | 43.76 | Dalveer Singh | INC | 2,57,030 | 37.90 | 39,734 | 5.86 | ||
| 12 | Surguja (ST) | Larang Sai | BJP | 2,95,452 | 44.48 | Khel Sai Singh | INC | 2,74,832 | 41.37 | 20,620 | 3.11 | ||
| 13 | Raigarh (ST) | Ajit Jogi | INC | 3,25,112 | 48.27 | Nandkumar Sai | BJP | 3,20,730 | 47.62 | 4,382 | 0.65 | ||
| 14 | Janjgir | Charandas Mahant | INC | 2,90,175 | 40.50 | Manharan Lal Pandey | BJP | 2,45,589 | 34.28 | 44,586 | 6.22 | ||
| 15 | Bilaspur (SC) | Punnulal Mohle | BJP | 2,74,793 | 47.60 | Kanya Kumari Alias Tanya Anuragi | INC | 2,26,178 | 39.18 | 48,615 | 8.42 | ||
| 16 | Sarangarh (SC) | Paras Ram Bharadwaj | INC | 2,17,558 | 34.62 | P. R. Khute | BJP | 2,11,171 | 33.60 | 6,387 | 1.02 | ||
| 17 | Raipur | Ramesh Bais | BJP | 3,44,380 | 49.42 | Vidyacharan Shukl | INC | 2,61,001 | 37.46 | 83,379 | 11.96 | ||
| 18 | Mahasamund | Chandrashekhar Sahu (Champu) | BJP | 3,32,874 | 49.76 | Pawan Diwan | INC | 2,85,142 | 42.62 | 47,732 | 7.14 | ||
| 19 | Kanker (ST) | Sohan Potai | BJP | 2,70,121 | 45.97 | Mahendra Karma | INC | 2,15,751 | 36.72 | 54,370 | 9.25 | ||
| 20 | Bastar (ST) | Baliram Kashyap | BJP | 1,51,484 | 42.27 | Mankuram Sodi | INC | 1,34,603 | 37.56 | 16,881 | 4.71 | ||
| 21 | Durg | Tarachand Sahu | BJP | 3,84,901 | 50.45 | Jageshwar Sahu | INC | 3,16,183 | 41.45 | 68,718 | 9.00 | ||
| 22 | Rajnandgaon | Motilal Vora | INC | 3,04,709 | 50.61 | Ashok Sharma | BJP | 2,52,468 | 41.93 | 52,241 | 8.68 | ||
| 23 | Balaghat | Gaurishankar Chaturbhuj Bisen | BJP | 2,40,066 | 40.27 | Vishaveshwar Bhagat | INC | 2,14,535 | 35.99 | 25,531 | 4.28 | ||
| 24 | Mandla (ST) | Faggan Singh Kulaste | BJP | 2,68,739 | 47.74 | Chhote Lal Uike | INC | 2,55,227 | 45.34 | 13,512 | 2.40 | ||
| 25 | Jabalpur | Dada Baburao Paranjpe | BJP | 3,00,584 | 46.86 | Dr. Alok Chansoria | INC | 2,16,469 | 33.75 | 84,115 | 13.11 | ||
| 26 | Seoni | Vimla Varma | INC | 3,12,097 | 47.88 | Prahlad Singh Patel | BJP | 2,88,376 | 44.24 | 23,721 | 3.64 | ||
| 27 | Chhindwara | Kamalnath | INC | 4,06,249 | 58.40 | Sundarlal Patwa | BJP | 2,52,851 | 36.35 | 1,53,398 | 22.05 | ||
| 28 | Betul | Vijay Kumar Khandelwal (Munni Bhaiya) | BJP | 2,84,091 | 50.54 | Dr. Ashok Sable | INC | 2,44,425 | 43.48 | 39,666 | 7.06 | ||
| 29 | Hoshangabad | Sartaj Singh | BJP | 3,87,395 | 53.15 | Arjun Singh | INC | 3,18,414 | 43.68 | 68,981 | 9.47 | ||
| 30 | Bhopal | Sushil Chandra Verma | BJP | 4,94,481 | 57.44 | Arif Baig | INC | 3,00,549 | 34.91 | 1,93,932 | 22.53 | ||
| 31 | Vidisha | Shivraj Singh | BJP | 3,74,406 | 56.99 | Ashutosh Dayal Sharma | INC | 2,36,548 | 36.01 | 1,37,858 | 20.98 | ||
| 32 | Rajgarh | Laxman Singh | INC | 3,52,289 | 50.13 | Kailash Joshi | BJP | 2,96,055 | 42.12 | 56,234 | 8.01 | ||
| 33 | Shajapur (SC) | Gehlot Thavarchand | BJP | 3,71,571 | 49.03 | Sajjansingh Verma | INC | 3,52,577 | 46.52 | 18,994 | 2.51 | ||
| 34 | Khandwa | Nandkumar Singh Chouhan (Nandu Bhaiya) | BJP | 3,34,340 | 51.80 | Tha. Mahendra Kumar Singh (Manne Bhaiya) | INC | 2,89,820 | 44.90 | 44,520 | 6.90 | ||
| 35 | Khargone | Rameshwar Patidar | BJP | 3,11,394 | 48.31 | Bondarsingh | INC | 2,90,715 | 45.11 | 20,679 | 3.20 | ||
| 36 | Dhar (ST) | Gajendra Singh Rajukhedi | INC | 3,44,858 | 51.29 | Hemlata Chhatar Singh Darbar | BJP | 3,23,765 | 48.16 | 21,093 | 3.13 | ||
| 37 | Indore | Sumitra Mahajan | BJP | 4,40,047 | 52.00 | Pankaj Sanghvi | INC | 3,90,195 | 46.11 | 49,852 | 5.89 | ||
| 38 | Ujjain (SC) | Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya | BJP | 3,48,405 | 56.07 | Dr. Avantika Prasad Marmat | INC | 2,54,518 | 40.96 | 93,887 | 15.11 | ||
| 39 | Jhabua (ST) | Kantilal Bhuriya | INC | 3,07,735 | 53.05 | Dilip Singh Bhuriya | BJP | 2,25,362 | 38.85 | 82,373 | 14.20 | ||
| 40 | Mandsaur | Dr. Laxminarayan Pandey | BJP | 4,12,849 | 49.43 | Narendra Bhanwarlal Nahata | INC | 3,95,147 | 47.31 | 17,702 | 2.12 | ||
Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Madhya Pradesh
| # | Name | Constituency | Designation | Department | From | To | Party | |
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| 1 | Sikander Bakht | Rajya Sabha | Cabinet Minister | Industry | 19 March 1998 |
13 October 1999 |
BJP | |
| 2 | Satyanarayan Jatiya | Ujjain (SC) | Labour | |||||
| 3 | Uma Bharti | Khajuraho | MoS | Human Resource Development | ||||
| MoS (I/C) | Department of Youth Affairs, Sports, Women and Child Development | 1 March 1999 | ||||||
| 4 | Ramesh Bais | Raipur | MoS | Steel | 19 March 1998 | |||
| Mines | ||||||||