1996 Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh

Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh, 1996
40 seats
Prime Minister before election; P. V. Narasimha Rao; INC	Prime Minister after election ; Atal Bihari Vajpayee; BJP

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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]

Parties and alliances

Bharatiya Janata Party

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Bharatiya Janata Party	File:BJP flag.svg		L. K. Advani	39
	Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress			Madhavrao Scindia	1

Indian National Congress

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Indian National Congress			Digvijaya Singh	40

Others

Party		flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)			Narayan Dutt Tiwari	33
	Bahujan Samaj Party			Mayawati	28

List of Candidates

Constituency		BJP+			INC			BSP			AIIC(T)
No.	Name	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate
1	Morena (SC)		BJP	Ashok Argal		INC	Babu Lal Solanki		BSP	Dr. Pritam Prasad Choudhary		AIIC(T)	Mukat Singh Sakhwar
2	Bhind		BJP	Dr. Ram Lakhan Singh		INC	Dr. Pt. Vishwanath Sharma		BSP	Kedar Nath Kushwah (Kachhi)		AIIC(T)	Rajesh Singh Bhadoria
3	Gwalior		Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress	Madhavrao Scindhiya		INC	Shashibhushan Bajpai		BSP	Phool Singh Baraiya		Did not contest
4	Guna		BJP	Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia		INC	K. P. Singh		BSP	Prakash Singh Dhakad		AIIC(T)	Sardar Singh Raghuwanshi
5	Sagar (SC)		BJP	Virendra Kumar		INC	Anand Tulsiram Ahirwar		BSP	Jaikaran Saket		AIIC(T)	Uttam Khatik
6	Khajuraho		BJP	Uma Bharti		INC	Manvendra Singh		BSP	R. D. Prajapati		Did not contest
7	Damoh		BJP	Ram Krishna Kusmaria		INC	Mukesh Nayak		BSP	Sukhnandan Patel		AIIC(T)	Raj Bahadur Singh
8	Satna		BJP	Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha		INC	Toshan Singh		BSP	Sukhlal Kushwaha		AIIC(T)	Arjun Singh
9	Rewa		BJP	Parveen Kumari		INC	Sunder Lal Tiwari		BSP	Buddha Hasen Patel		Did not contest
10	Sidhi (ST)		BJP	Manik Singh		INC	Moti Lal Singh		BSP	Basanti		AIIC(T)	Tilak Raj Singh
11	Shahdol (ST)		BJP	Gyan Singh		INC	Dalabir Singh		BSP	Phunde Lal Singh Marko		Did not contest
12	Surguja (ST)		BJP	Larangsai		INC	Khelsai Singh		Did not contest			AIIC(T)	Bhanu Pratap Singh
13	Raigarh (ST)		BJP	Nand Kumar Sai		INC	Pushpa Devi Singh		Did not contest			AIIC(T)	Shrimati Uma Rathiya
14	Janjgir		BJP	Manaharan Lal Pandey		INC	Bhawanilal Verma		BSP	Engineer Chaitram Chandra		AIIC(T)	Bodh Ram
15	Bilaspur (SC)		BJP	Punnulal Mohle		INC	Khelan Ram		BSP	Advocate T. R. Nirala		AIIC(T)	Banshi Lal
16	Sarangarh (SC)		BJP	Shyamsundar Ratre		INC	Paras Ram Bhardwaj		BSP	Dauram Ratnakar		AIIC(T)	K. P. Haripriya
17	Raipur		BJP	Ramesh Vaish		INC	Dhanender Sahu		BSP	Vishnu Baghel		Did not contest
18	Mahasamund		BJP	Chandra Sekhar		INC	Pawan Diwan		BSP	Janki Devi Dhruv		AIIC(T)	Chandrika Sahu
19	Kanker (ST)		BJP	Sohan Potai		INC	Chhabila Arvind Netam		BSP	Dr. J. R. Thakur		AIIC(T)	Jhumuklal Vhendia
20	Bastar (ST)		BJP	Rajaram Todem		INC	Mankuram Sodhi		Did not contest			AIIC(T)	Ganga Potai
21	Durg		BJP	Tarachand Sahu		INC	Pyare Lal Belchandan		BSP	Paras Nath Patel		AIIC(T)	Anjan Lal Chandrakar
22	Rajnandgaon		BJP	Ashok Sharma		INC	Shivendra Bahadur Singh		BSP	Ashok Sahu		AIIC(T)	Balbir Khanuja
23	Balaghat		BJP	Gaurishankar Chaturbhuj Bisen		INC	Vishveshwar Bhagat		BSP	Vijay Beniram Vare		Did not contest
24	Mandla (ST)		BJP	Faggansingh Kulaste		INC	Mohanlal		BSP	Rajendera Singh		AIIC(T)	Maniklal
25	Jabalpur		BJP	Dada Baburao Paranjape		INC	Sarvankumar Patel		BSP	Ashok Patel		AIIC(T)	Chandrika Prasad Tripathi
26	Seoni		BJP	Prahlad Singh Patel		INC	Vimla Verma		BSP	Shyam Dhurvey		AIIC(T)	Shashibhusan Singh
27	Chhindwara		BJP	Choudhari Chandrabhan Singh Kubersingh		INC	Alka Kamalnath		Did not contest			Did not contest
28	Betul		BJP	Vijay Kumar Khandelwal		INC	Aslam Sherkhan		Did not contest			AIIC(T)	Vishnu Rajoriya
29	Hoshangabad		BJP	Sartaj Singh		INC	Rameshwar Neekhra		BSP	Munna Lal Patel		AIIC(T)	Nageen Kochar
30	Bhopal		BJP	Sushil Chandra		INC	Kailash Agnihotri (Kundal)		Did not contest			AIIC(T)	Lalit Shrivastava
31	Vidisha		BJP	Shivraj Singh		INC	Hirdai Mohan Jain		BSP	Nathoo Ram Lodhi		AIIC(T)	Naresh Jain
32	Rajgarh		BJP	Piarayelal Khandelwal		INC	Laxman Singh		BSP	Jagdish Suryavanshi		AIIC(T)	Rajyavardhan Singh
33	Shajapur (SC)		BJP	Thawarchand Gehlot		INC	Shakuntala Chouhan		Did not contest			AIIC(T)	Puran Lal Malviya
34	Khandwa		BJP	Nand Kumar Singh Chouhan (Nandu Bhaiya)		INC	Shiv Kumar Singh Naval Singh		BSP	Ganshyam Choudhari		AIIC(T)	Salim Patel Hazi Hasham
35	Khargone		BJP	Rameshwar Pattidhar		INC	Bodar Singh Kalu Singh Mandloi		Did not contest			AIIC(T)	Rajinder Singh Chauhan
36	Dhar (ST)		BJP	Chhatar Sinh Darbar		INC	Surajbhanu Shivbhanu Solanki					AIIC(T)	Goverdhansinh Mukati
37	Indore		BJP	Sau. Sumitra Mahajan		INC	Madhukar Verma					AIIC(T)	Anil Lalbhadur
38	Ujjain (SC)		BJP	Satyanarian Jatiya		INC	Sidhnatha Parihar		BSP	Bhanwarsingh Gangwal		AIIC(T)	Babulal Nagulal Malvia
39	Jhabua (ST)		BJP	Bhagirath Bhanwar		INC	Dileep Singh Bhuria		Did not contest			AIIC(T)	Prabhudayal Ghehalot
40	Mandsaur		BJP	Laxminarian Pandey		INC	Ganshyam Patidar Nehrulal		Did not contest			AIIC(T)	Arvind Chopra

Result

Results by Party

Party/Alliance				Popular vote			Seats
Party/Alliance				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	BJP+		BJP	94,72,940	41.32	0.56	39	27	15
			MPVC	3,37,539	1.47	Template:New	1	1	1
		Total		98,10,479	42.79		40	28	16
	INC			71,11,753	31.02	14.32	40	8	19
	BSP			18,74,594	8.18	4.64	28	2	1
	AIIC(T)			10,78,589	4.70	Template:New	33	1	1
	JD			2,41,119	1.05	3.19	8	0
	CPI			1,68,448	0.73	0.31	4	0
	Others			4,45,775	1.94		60	0
	IND			21,94,115	9.57		1046	1
Total				2,29,24,872	100%	-	1259	40	-

Constituency-wise results

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
Constituency		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Morena (SC)	Ashok Argal		BJP	1,72,675	42.58	Dr. Pritam Prasad Choudhary		BSP	1,34,696	33.21	37,979	9.37
2	Bhind	Dr. Ram Lakhan Singh		BJP	1,98,109	39.21	Kedar Nath Kushwah (Kachhi)		BSP	1,82,311	36.08	15,798	3.13
3	Gwalior	Madhavrao Scindhiya		MPVC	3,37,539	66.33	Phool Singh Baraiya		BSP	1,13,545	22.31	2,23,994	44.02
4	Guna	Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia		BJP	2,72,633	49.78	K.P. Singh		INC	1,41,809	25.89	1,30,824	23.89
5	Sagar (SC)	Virendra Kumar		BJP	2,45,106	52.25	Anand Tulsiram Ahirwar		INC	96,789	20.63	1,48,317	31.62
6	Khajuraho	Uma Bharti		BJP	2,94,472	45.27	Manvendra Singh		INC	1,63,382	25.12	1,31,090	20.15
7	Damoh	Ram Krishna Kusmaria		BJP	3,03,476	50.89	Mukesh Nayak		INC	1,35,219	22.67	1,68,257	28.22
8	Satna	Sukhlal Kushwaha		BSP	1,82,497	28.37	Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha		BJP	1,60,259	24.91	22,238	3.46
9	Rewa	Buddha Hasen Patel		BSP	1,58,379	26.91	Parveen Kumari		BJP	1,45,997	24.81	12,382	2.10
10	Sidhi (ST)	Tilak Raj Singh		AIIC(T)	1,68,340	26.40	Manik Singh		BJP	1,60,136	25.11	8,204	1.29
11	Shahdol (ST)	Gyan Singh		BJP	2,10,946	33.92	Dalabir Singh		INC	1,57,551	25.34	53,395	8.58
12	Surguja (ST)	Khelsai Singh		INC	2,61,213	41.06	Larangsai		BJP	2,52,442	39.68	8,771	1.38
13	Raigarh (ST)	Nand Kumar Sai		BJP	2,61,080	42.25	Pushpa Devi Singh		INC	2,51,882	40.76	9,198	1.49
14	Janjgir	Manaharan Lal Pandey		BJP	1,98,600	30.75	Bhawanilal Verma		INC	1,64,868	25.53	33,732	5.22
15	Bilaspur (SC)	Punnulal Mohle		BJP	2,26,054	41.96	Khelan Ram		INC	1,91,174	35.49	34,880	6.47
16	Sarangarh (SC)	Paras Ram Bhardwaj		INC	2,18,055	39.88	Dauram Ratnakar		BSP	1,84,778	33.79	33,277	6.09
17	Raipur	Ramesh Vaish		BJP	2,52,990	45.56	Dhanender Sahu		INC	2,02,251	36.42	50,739	9.14
18	Mahasamund	Pawan Diwan		INC	2,50,521	41.41	Chandra Sekhar		BJP	2,43,581	40.26	6,940	1.15
19	Kanker (ST)	Chhabila Arvind Netam		INC	2,19,191	39.77	Sohan Potai		BJP	1,94,771	35.34	24,420	4.43
20	Bastar (ST)	Mahendra Karma		IND	1,24,322	32.15	Mankuram Sodhi		INC	1,10,265	28.51	14,057	3.64
21	Durg	Tarachand Sahu		BJP	2,69,450	42.35	Pyare Lal Belchandan		INC	2,43,703	38.31	25,747	4.04
22	Rajnandgaon	Ashok Sharma		BJP	2,22,616	44.67	Shivendra Bahadur Singh		INC	1,63,340	32.78	59,276	11.89
23	Balaghat	Vishveshwar Bhagat		INC	1,71,569	30.91	Gaurishankar Chaturbhuj Bisen		BJP	1,70,312	30.68	1,257	0.23
24	Mandla (ST)	Faggansingh Kulaste		BJP	2,46,334	44.89	Mohanlal		INC	1,81,714	33.11	64,620	11.78
25	Jabalpur	Dada Baburao Paranjape		BJP	2,56,621	49.09	Sarvankumar Patel		INC	1,62,941	31.17	93,680	17.92
26	Seoni	Prahlad Singh Patel		BJP	2,62,373	43.64	Vimla Verma		INC	1,97,526	32.85	64,847	10.79
27	Chhindwara	Alka Kamalnath		INC	2,81,414	46.69	Choudhari Chandrabhan Singh Kubersingh		BJP	2,60,032	43.14	21,382	3.55
28	Betul	Vijay Kumar Khandelwal		BJP	2,60,259	52.22	Aslam Sherkhan		INC	1,48,183	29.74	1,12,076	22.48
29	Hoshangabad	Sartaj Singh		BJP	2,69,084	47.58	Rameshwar Neekhra		INC	2,16,557	38.30	52,527	9.28
30	Bhopal	Sushil Chandra		BJP	3,53,427	49.27	Kailash Agnihotri (Kundal)		INC	2,02,533	28.24	1,50,894	21.03
31	Vidisha	Shivraj Singh		BJP	3,10,580	54.15	Hirdai Mohan Jain		INC	1,34,822	23.51	1,75,758	30.64
32	Rajgarh	Laxman Singh		INC	2,57,218	43.68	Piarayelal Khandelwal		BJP	2,32,017	39.40	25,201	4.28
33	Shajapur (SC)	Thawarchand Gehlot		BJP	3,42,924	56.31	Shakuntala Chouhan		INC	2,13,285	35.02	1,29,639	21.29
34	Khandwa	Nand Kumar Singh Chouhan		BJP	2,89,099	50.49	Shiv Kumar Singh Naval Singh		INC	1,94,749	34.01	94,350	16.48
35	Khargone	Rameshwar Pattidhar		BJP	2,86,549	49.26	Bodar Singh Kalu Singh Mandloi		INC	2,41,342	41.49	45,207	7.77
36	Dhar (ST)	Chhatar Sinh Darbar		BJP	2,98,741	51.43	Surajbhanu Shivbhanu Solanki		INC	2,17,130	37.38	81,611	14.05
37	Indore	Sau. Sumitra Mahajan		BJP	3,38,327	50.94	Madhukar Verma		INC	2,33,894	35.22	1,04,433	15.72
38	Ujjain (SC)	Satyanarian Jatiya		BJP	3,06,935	53.06	Sidhnatha Parihar		INC	1,95,678	33.83	1,11,257	19.23
39	Jhabua (ST)	Dileep Singh Bhuria		INC	1,88,933	39.78	Bhagirath Bhanwar		BJP	1,61,034	33.90	27,899	5.88
40	Mandsaur	Laxminarian Pandey		BJP	3,45,896	49.69	Ganshyam Patidar Nehrulal		INC	2,66,048	38.22	79,848	11.47

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.

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.

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