1998 Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh

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).

Parties and alliances

PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedBharatiya Janata PartyL. K. Advani40

PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedIndian National CongressMadhavrao Scindia 40

Others Party flag Symbol Leader Seats contested Bahujan Samaj Party Mayawati 35 Gondwana Ganatantra Party Hira Singh Markam 18 Janata Party Subramanian Swamy 18 Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav 12

Result

! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Parties and coalitions ! colspan="3" |Seats ! colspan="3" |Popular vote |- !Contested !Won !+/− !Votes !% !±pp |- | bgcolor="" | |Bharatiya Janata Party | 40 | 30 | 3 | 1,23,15,405 | 45.73% | 4.41% |- | bgcolor="" | | Indian National Congress | 40 | 10 | 2 | 1,06,11,317 | 39.4% | 8.38% |- | bgcolor="" | |Bahujan Samaj Party | 35 | 0

| 23,43,027 |8.7% | 0.52% |- | bgcolor="" | |Janata Party | 18 | 0

| 3,28,989 | 1.22% | 1.14%

| bgcolor="red" | |Samajwadi Party | 12 | 0

| 1,75,461 | 0.65% | 0.57%

| bgcolor="" | |Gondwana Ganatantra Party | 12 | 0

| 1,78,447 | 0.66% | 0.62% |- | bgcolor="" | |Independents | 128 | 0

| 3,55,110 | 1.32% | 8.25% |- | colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9" | |- style="font-weight:bold;" | align="left" colspan="2"| Total |40 | colspan=2 bgcolor="#E9E9E9" | | 2,69,30,007 | colspan=2 bgcolor="#E9E9E9" |

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Invalid votes |6,06,377 |2.2 | colspan="4" rowspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"  | |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Votes cast / turnout |2,75,41,607 |61.74 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Registered voters | 4,46,07,368 | 100.00

Constituency-wise results Keys: 

Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin % # Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %1 Morena (SC)Ashok ArgalBJP2,77,49943.44Pritam PrasadBSP2,09,37832.7768,12110.672 BhindRam Lakhan SinghBJP2,92,68242.27Kedar Nath KachhiBSP1,93,77427.9998,90814.283 GwaliorMadhavrao ScindiaINC2,84,36539.77Jaibhan Singh PawaiyaBJP2,58,08636.0926,2793.684 GunaVijaya Raje ScindiaBJP3,36,15146.67Devendra SinghINC2,33,15332.371,02,99814.305 Sagar (SC)Virendra Kumar KhatikBJP3,36,63856.99Nandlal ChoudharyINC1,88,23431.871,48,40425.126 KhajurahoUma BhartiBJP3,51,60743.40ShriramINC2,47,76030.581,03,84712.827 DamohRamkrishna KusmariaBJP3,12,05744.40NareshchandINC1,81,45925.821,30,59818.588 SatnaRamanand SinghBJP2,63,01136.58Rajendra Kumar SinghINC2,18,52630.3944,4856.199 RewaChandramani TripathiBJP2,76,36736.68Bhim Singh PatelBSP2,07,39427.5368,9739.1510 Sidhi (ST)Jagannath SinghBJP2,75,80338.89Tilak Raj SinghINC2,29,27132.3346,5326.5611 Shahdol (ST)Gyan SinghBJP2,96,76443.76Dalveer SinghINC2,57,03037.9039,7345.8612Surguja (ST)Larang SaiBJP2,95,45244.48Khelsai SinghINC2,74,83241.3720,6203.1113 Raigarh (ST)Ajit JogiINC3,25,11248.27Nand Kumar SaiBJP3,20,73047.624,3820.6514JanjgirCharandas MahantINC2,90,17540.50Manharan Lal PandeyBJP2,45,58934.2844,5866.2215 Bilaspur (SC)Punnulal MohleBJP2,74,79347.60Kanya KumariINC2,26,17839.1848,6158.4216 Sarangarh (SC)Paras Ram BhardwajINC2,17,55834.62P.R. KhuteBJP2,11,17133.606,3871.0217 RaipurRamesh BaisBJP3,44,38049.42Vidya Charan ShuklaINC2,61,00137.4683,37911.9618 MahasamundChandra Shekhar Sahu BJP3,32,87449.76Pawan DiwanINC2,85,14242.6247,7327.1419 Kanker (ST)Sohan PotaiBJP2,70,12145.97Mahendra KarmaINC2,15,75136.7254,3709.2520 Bastar (ST)Baliram KashyapBJP1,51,48442.27Manku Ram SodhiINC1,34,60337.5616,8814.7121 DurgTarachand SahuBJP3,84,90150.45Jageshwar SahuINC3,16,18341.4568,7189.0022 RajnandgaonMotilal VoraINC3,04,70950.61Ashok SharmaBJP2,52,46841.9352,2418.6823 BalaghatGaurishankar BisenBJP2,40,06640.27Vishaveshwar BhagatINC2,14,53535.9925,5314.2824 Mandla (ST)Faggan Singh KulasteBJP2,68,73947.74Chhote Lal UikeINC2,55,22745.3413,5122.4025 JabalpurBaburao ParanjpeBJP3,00,58446.86Alok ChansoriaINC2,16,46933.7584,11513.1126 SeoniVimla VarmaINC3,12,09747.88Prahlad Singh PatelBJP2,88,37644.2423,7213.6427 ChhindwaraKamalnathINC4,06,24958.40Sunder Lal PatwaBJP2,52,85136.351,53,39822.0528 BetulVijay Kumar KhandelwalBJP2,84,09150.54Ashok SableINC2,44,42543.4839,6667.0629 HoshangabadSartaj SinghBJP3,87,39553.15Arjun SinghINC3,18,41443.6868,9819.4730 BhopalSushil Chandra VermaBJP4,94,48157.44Arif BegINC3,00,54934.911,93,93222.5331 VidishaShivraj Singh ChouhanBJP3,74,40656.99Ashutosh Dayal SharmaINC2,36,54836.011,37,85820.9832 RajgarhLaxman SinghINC3,52,28950.13Kailash JoshiBJP2,96,05542.1256,2348.0133 Shajapur (SC)Thawarchand GehlotBJP3,71,57149.03Sajjan Singh VermaINC3,52,57746.5218,9942.5134 KhandwaNandkumar Singh ChauhanBJP3,34,34051.80Thakur Mahendra SinghINC2,89,82044.9044,5206.9035 KhargoneRameshwar PatidarBJP3,11,39448.31BondarsinghINC2,90,71545.1120,6793.2036 Dhar (ST)Gajendra Singh RajukhediINC3,44,85851.29Hemlata Chhatar DarbarBJP3,23,76548.1621,0933.1337 IndoreSumitra MahajanBJP4,40,04752.00Pankaj SanghviINC3,90,19546.1149,8525.8938 Ujjain (SC)Satyanarayan JatiyaBJP3,48,40556.07Avantika Prasad MarmatINC2,54,51840.9693,88715.1139Jhabua (ST)Kantilal BhuriaINC3,07,73553.05Dileep Singh BhuriaBJP2,25,36238.8582,37314.2040 MandsaurLaxminarayan PandeyBJP4,12,84949.43Narendra NahataINC3,95,14747.3117,7022.12

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Madhya Pradesh #NameConstituencyDesignationDepartmentFromToParty1Sikander BakhtRajya SabhaCabinet MinisterIndustry19 March199813 October19992Satyanarayan JatiyaUjjain (SC)Labour3Uma BhartiKhajurahoMoSHuman Resource DevelopmentMoS (I/C)Department of Youth Affairs, Sports, Women and Child Development1 March19994Ramesh BaisRaipurMoSSteel19 March1998Mines

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