2009 Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh
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The 2009 Indian general election for Madhya Pradesh polls were held for 29 seats in the state. The major two contenders in the state were Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC). The BJP was expected to perform well as it had won the assembly elections conducted in the state during November–December 2008.[1]
April–May 2009
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| Turnout | 51.17% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parties and alliances
National Democratic Alliance
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | Shivraj Singh Chouhan | 29 | |||
United Progressive Alliance
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | Jyotiraditya Scindia | 28 | |||
Others
| Party | flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahujan Samaj Party | Mayawati | 28 | |||
| Samajwadi Party | Mulayam Singh Yadav | 18 | |||
List of Candidates
| Constituency | INC | BJP | BSP | SP | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | ||||
| 1 | Morena | INC | Ramnivas Rawat | BJP | Narendra Singh Tomar | BSP | Balveer Singh Dandotiya | SP | Ad. Baijnath Kushwaha | ||||
| 2 | Bhind | INC | Bhagirath Prasad | BJP | Ashok Argal | BSP | D.R. Rahul | SP | Nand Kishor Kori | ||||
| 3 | Gwalior | INC | Ashok Singh | BJP | Yashodhara Raje Scindia | BSP | Ajab Singh Kushwah | Did not contest | |||||
| 4 | Guna | INC | Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia | BJP | Dr. Narottam Mishra | BSP | Lokpal Lodhi | ||||||
| 5 | Sagar | INC | Aslam Sher Khan | BJP | Bhupendra Singh | BSP | Ahirwar Naresh Boudha | SP | Gouri Singh Yadav | ||||
| 6 | Tikamgarh | INC | Ahirwar Vrindavan | BJP | Virendra Kumar | BSP | G.D. | SP | Chintaman Kori Rampuriya | ||||
| 7 | Damoh | INC | Chandrabhan Bhaiya | BJP | Shivraj Bhaiya | Did not contest | SP | Ahir Kamla Yadav | |||||
| 8 | Khajuraho | INC | Raja Paterya | BJP | Jeetendra Singh Bundela | BSP | Sewa Lal Patel | SP | Jayawant Singh | ||||
| 9 | Satna | INC | Sudhir Singh Tomar | BJP | Ganesh Singh | BSP | Sukhlal Kushwaha | SP | Pt. Rajaram Tripathi | ||||
| 10 | Rewa | INC | Sunder Lal Tiwari | BJP | Chandramani Tripathi | BSP | Deoraj Singh Patel | SP | Pushpraj Singh | ||||
| 11 | Sidhi | INC | Indrajeet Kumar | BJP | Govind Prasad Mishra | BSP | Ashok Kumar Shah | SP | Manik Singh | ||||
| 12 | Shahdol | INC | Rajesh Nandini Singh | BJP | Narendra Singh Maravi | BSP | Manohar Singh Maravi | SP | Chandra Pratap Singh (Baba Sahab) | ||||
| 13 | Jabalpur | INC | Rameshwar Neekhra | BJP | Rakesh Singh | BSP | Aziz Qureshi | SP | Ashok Kumar Sharma | ||||
| 14 | Mandla | INC | Basori Singh Masram | BJP | Faggan Singh Kulaste | BSP | Jalso Dhurwey | Did not contest | |||||
| 15 | Balaghat | INC | Vishveshwar Bhagat | BJP | K. D. Deshmukh | BSP | Ajab Lal | SP | Kishor Samrite | ||||
| 16 | Chhindwara | INC | Kamal Nath | BJP | Marot Rao Khavase | BSP | Rao Saheb Shinde | Did not contest | |||||
| 17 | Hoshangabad | INC | Uday Pratap Singh | BJP | Rampal Singh | BSP | Adv. B. M. Kaushik | SP | Hajee Syid Mueen Uddin | ||||
| 18 | Vidisha | Did not contest [2][3] |
BJP | Sushma Swaraj | BSP | Dr. Premshankar Sharma | SP | Munvvar Saleem | |||||
| 19 | Bhopal | INC | Surendra Singh Thakur | BJP | Kailash Chandra Joshi | BSP | Er. Ashok Narayan Singh | SP | Mhod. Munawar Khan Kausar | ||||
| 20 | Rajgarh | INC | Narayan Singh Amlabe | BJP | Lakshman Singh | BSP | Shivnarayan Ahirwar | Did not contest | |||||
| 21 | Dewas | INC | Sajjan Singh Verma | BJP | Thawar Chand Gehlot | BSP | Bhagirath Parihar | ||||||
| 22 | Ujjain | INC | Premchand Guddu | BJP | Satyanarayan Jatiya | BSP | Baboolal Thawaliya | ||||||
| 23 | Mandsour | INC | Meenakshi Natrajan | BJP | Laxminarayan Pandey | BSP | Bherulal Malviy (Balai) | ||||||
| 24 | Ratlam | INC | Kantilal Bhuria | BJP | Dileep Singh Bhuria | BSP | Ramesh Solanki | SP | Jeevanlal | ||||
| 25 | Dhar | INC | Gajendra Singh Rajukhedi | BJP | Mukam Singh Kirade | BSP | Ajay Rawat | Did not contest | |||||
| 26 | Indore | INC | Satyanarayan Patel | BJP | Sumitra Mahajan (Tai) | BSP | Rahim Khan | SP | Dr. Anita Yadav | ||||
| 27 | Khargone | INC | Balaram Bachchan | BJP | Makhansingh Solanki | BSP | D. R. Barde | Did not contest | |||||
| 28 | Khandwa | INC | Arun Subhashchandra Yadav | BJP | Nandkumar Singh Chauhan | BSP | Dada Saheb Wamanrao Sasane | ||||||
| 29 | Betul | INC | Ojharam Evane | BJP | Jyoti Dhurve | BSP | Rama Kakodia | SP | Dr. Sukhdev Singh Chouhan | ||||
Voting and results
The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won 16 seats, Indian National Congress (INC) 12 seats whereas the Bahujan Samaj Party won one seat.
Result by Party
| Parties and coalitions | Seats | Popular vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contested | Won | +/− | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 29 | 16 | 84,65,524 | 43.45% | |||
| Indian National Congress | 29 | 12 | 78,20,333 | 40.14% | |||
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 28 | 1 | 11,40,044 | 5.85% | |||
| Samajwadi Party | 18 | 0 | - | 5,51,341 | 2.82% | ||
| Gondwana Ganatantra Party | 13 | 0 | - | 1,20,182 | 0.62% | ||
| Independents | 213 | 0 | - | 9,57,495 | 4.91% | ||
| Total | 29 | 1,94,84,608 | |||||
| Valid votes | 1,94,84,608 | 99.97 | |||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 1,94,88,914 | 51.17 | |||||
| Abstentions | 1,85,96,265 | 48.83 | |||||
| Registered voters | 3,80,85,179 | 100.0 | |||||
Source: Election Commission of India[4]
Constituency-wise results
Keys: BJP (16) INC (12) BSP (1)
| Constituency | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | % | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ||||
| 1 | Morena | Narendra Singh Tomar | BJP | 3,00,647 | 42.30 | Ramniwas Rawat | INC | 1,99,650 | 28.09 | 1,00,997 | 14.21 | ||
| 2 | Bhind (SC) | Ashok Argal | BJP | 2,27,365 | 43.41 | Bhagirath Prasad | INC | 2,08,479 | 39.80 | 18,886 | 3.61 | ||
| 3 | Gwalior | Yashodhara Scindia | BJP | 2,52,314 | 43.19 | Ashok Singh | INC | 2,25,723 | 38.64 | 26,591 | 4.55 | ||
| 4 | Guna | Jyotiraditya Scindia | INC | 4,13,297 | 63.60 | Narottam Mishra | BJP | 1,63,560 | 25.17 | 2,49,737 | 38.43 | ||
| 5 | Sagar | Bhupendra Singh | BJP | 3,23,954 | 56.80 | Aslam Sher Khan | INC | 1,92,786 | 33.80 | 1,31,168 | 23.00 | ||
| 6 | Tikamgarh (SC) | Virendra Khatik | BJP | 2,00,109 | 38.10 | Ahirwar Vrindavan | INC | 1,58,247 | 30.13 | 41,862 | 7.97 | ||
| 7 | Damoh | Shivraj Lodhi | BJP | 3,02,673 | 50.52 | Chandrabhan Bhaiya | INC | 2,31,796 | 38.69 | 70,877 | 11.83 | ||
| 8 | Khajuraho | Jeetendra Bundela | BJP | 2,29,369 | 39.34 | Raja Paterya | INC | 2,01,037 | 34.48 | 28,332 | 4.86 | ||
| 9 | Satna | Ganesh Singh | BJP | 1,94,624 | 29.51 | Sukhlal Kushwaha | BSP | 1,90,206 | 28.84 | 4,418 | 0.67 | ||
| 10 | Rewa | Deoraj Singh Patel | BSP | 1,72,002 | 28.49 | Sunder Lal Tiwari | INC | 1,67,981 | 27.83 | 4,021 | 0.66 | ||
| 11 | Sidhi | Govind Prasad Mishra | BJP | 2,70,914 | 40.09 | Indrajeet Kumar | INC | 2,25,174 | 33.32 | 45,740 | 6.77 | ||
| 12 | Shahdol (ST) | Rajesh Nandini Singh | INC | 2,63,434 | 41.86 | Narendra Singh Maravi | BJP | 2,50,019 | 39.73 | 13,415 | 2.13 | ||
| 13 | Jabalpur | Rakesh Singh | BJP | 3,43,922 | 54.29 | Rameshwar Neekhra | INC | 2,37,919 | 37.56 | 1,06,003 | 16.73 | ||
| 14 | Mandla (ST) | Basori Singh Masram | INC | 3,91,133 | 45.50 | Faggan Singh Kulaste | BJP | 3,26,080 | 37.94 | 65,053 | 7.56 | ||
| 15 | Balaghat | K. D. Deshmukh | BJP | 2,99,959 | 39.65 | Vishveshwar Bhagat | INC | 2,59,140 | 34.25 | 40,819 | 5.40 | ||
| 16 | Chhindwara | Kamal Nath | INC | 4,09,736 | 49.41 | Marot Rao Khavase | BJP | 2,88,516 | 34.79 | 1,21,220 | 14.62 | ||
| 17 | Hoshangabad | Uday Pratap Singh | INC | 3,39,496 | 47.73 | Rampal Singh | BJP | 3,20,251 | 45.03 | 19,245 | 2.70 | ||
| 18 | Vidisha | Sushma Swaraj | BJP | 4,38,235 | 78.80 | Munvvar Saleem | SP | 48,391 | 8.70 | 3,89,844 | 70.10 | ||
| 19 | Bhopal | Kailash Joshi | BJP | 3,35,678 | 50.95 | Surendra Thakur | INC | 2,70,521 | 41.06 | 65,157 | 9.89 | ||
| 20 | Rajgarh | Narayan Amlabe | INC | 3,19,371 | 49.11 | Lakshman Singh | BJP | 2,94,983 | 45.36 | 24,388 | 3.75 | ||
| 21 | Dewas (SC) | Sajjan Singh Verma | INC | 3,76,421 | 48.08 | Thawar Chand Gehlot | BJP | 3,60,964 | 46.10 | 15,457 | 1.98 | ||
| 22 | Ujjain (SC) | Premchand Guddu | INC | 3,26,905 | 48.97 | Satyanarayan Jatiya | BJP | 3,11,064 | 46.60 | 15,841 | 2.37 | ||
| 23 | Mandsaur | Meenakshi Natarajan | INC | 3,73,532 | 48.80 | Laxminarayan Pandey | BJP | 3,42,713 | 44.77 | 30,819 | 4.03 | ||
| 24 | Ratlam (ST) | Kantilal Bhuria | INC | 3,08,923 | 48.46 | Dileep Bhuria | BJP | 2,51,255 | 39.42 | 57,668 | 9.04 | ||
| 25 | Dhar (ST) | Gajendra Rajukhedi | INC | 3,02,660 | 46.23 | Mukam Singh Kirade | BJP | 2,99,999 | 45.82 | 2,661 | 0.41 | ||
| 26 | Indore | Sumitra Mahajan | BJP | 3,88,662 | 48.77 | Satyanarayan Patel | INC | 3,77,182 | 47.33 | 11,480 | 1.44 | ||
| 27 | Khargone (ST) | Makhansingh Solanki | BJP | 3,51,296 | 46.19 | Bala Bachchan | INC | 3,17,121 | 41.70 | 34,175 | 4.49 | ||
| 28 | Khandwa | Arun Yadav | INC | 3,94,241 | 48.53 | Nandkumar Chauhan | BJP | 3,45,160 | 42.49 | 49,081 | 6.04 | ||
| 29 | Betul (ST) | Jyoti Dhurve | BJP | 3,34,939 | 52.62 | Ojharam Evane | INC | 2,37,622 | 37.33 | 97,317 | 15.29 | ||
Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Madhya Pradesh
Cabinet Ministers
| S No. | Minister | Party | Lok Sabha Seat/Rajya Sabha | Portfolios | Term Start | Term End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Kamal Nath | Indian National Congress | Chhindwara | Minister of Road Transport and Highways | 28 May 2009 | 19 Jan 2011 | |
| Minister of Urban Development | 19 Jan 2011 | 26 May 2014 | |||||
| Minister of Parliamentary Affairs | 28 Oct 2012 | 26 May 2014 | |||||
| 2. | Kantilal Bhuria | Ratlam | Minister of Tribal Affairs | 28 May 2009 | 12 July 2012 | ||
| 4. | Jyotiraditya Scindia | Guna | Minister of Power | 28 Oct 2012 | 26 May 2014 | ||
Minister of State
| S No. | Minister | Party | Lok Sabha Seat/Rajya Sabha | Portfolios | Term Start | Term End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Jyotiraditya Scindia | Indian National Congress | Guna | Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry | 28 May 2009 | 28 Oct 2012 | |
| 2. | Arun Yadav | Khandwa | Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports | 28 May 2009 | 14 June 2009 | ||
| Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises | 14 June 2009 | 19 Jan 2011 | |||||
| Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries | 19 Jan 2011 | 14 July 2011 | |||||
Assembly segments wise lead of Parties
| Party | Assembly segments | Position in Assembly (as of 2013 election) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 122 | 165 | |
| Indian National Congress | 100 | 58 | |
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 7 | 4 | |
| Samajwadi Party | 1 | 0 | |
| Others | 0 | 3 | |
| Total | 230 | ||

