1991 Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh

Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh, 1991

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40 seats
First party Second party   INC BJP Party INC BJP Seats before 8 27 Seats won 27 12 Seat change 19 15
Prime Minister before election Chandra Shekhar SJP(R) Prime Minister after election P. V. Narasimha Rao INC

In the 1991 Indian general election for Madhya Pradesh polls were held for 40 seats in the state. The result was a major victory for the Indian National Congress (INC) which won 12 seats. ^[1] Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fared poorly in this election and managed to won only 8 seats. ^[2]

Parties and alliances

   Bharatiya Janata Party

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Bharatiya Janata Party			L. K. Advani	40

   Indian National Congress

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Indian National Congress			Madhavrao Scindia	40

Others

Party		flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Janata Dal			Vishwanath Pratap Singh	37
	Bahujan Samaj Party			Kanshi Ram	21

Result

Party wise

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Results of Indian general election, 1996 in Madhya Pradesh

Parties and coalitions		Seats			Popular vote
		Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%	±pp
	Indian National Congress	40	27	19	74,25,644	45.34%	8.12%
	Bharatiya Janata Party	40	12	15	68,59,335	41.88%	2.22%
	Bahujan Samaj Party	21	1	1	5,80,030	3.54%	0.74%
	Janata Dal	37	0	4	6,95,158	4.24%	4.04%
	Independents	438	0	1	5,41,209	3.3%	4.27%
Total		40			1,63,78,467
Invalid votes		3,45,978	2.07
Votes cast / turnout		1,67,26,540	44.36
Registered voters		3,77,08,721	100.00

Constituency wise

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Morena (SC)	Barelal Jatav		INC	116,227	35.89	Chhaviram Argal		BJP	99,482	30.72	16,745	5.17
2	Bhind	Yoganand Saraswati		BJP	142,185	35.88	Udayan Sharma		INC	103,331	26.07	38,854	9.81
3	Gwalior	Madhav Rao Scindia		INC	195,212	53.37	Shejwalkar N. K.		BJP	96,156	26.29	99,056	27.08
4	Guna	Vijaya Raje Scindia		BJP	188,773	51.43	Shashi Bhooshan		INC	133,721	36.43	55,052	15.00
5	Sagar (SC)	Anand Ahirwar		INC	178,478	48.18	Ram Prasad Ahirwar		BJP	169,130	45.65	9,348	2.53
6	Khajuraho	Uma Bharti		BJP	251,714	49.95	Ramratan		INC	186,731	37.05	64,983	12.90
7	Damoh	Ramkrishna Kusmaria		BJP	198,708	46.73	Dal Chandra Jain		INC	182,550	42.93	16,158	3.80
8	Satna	Arjun Singh		INC	205,905	43.34	Sukhendra Singh		BJP	139,654	29.40	66,251	13.94
9	Rewa	Bheem Singh Patel		BSP	145,373	32.79	Shriniwas Tiwari		INC	131,057	29.56	14,316	3.23
10	Sidhi (ST)	Motilal Singh		INC	162,892	46.00	Jagannath Singh		BJP	131,268	37.07	31,624	8.93
11	Shahdol (ST)	Dalbir Singh		INC	155,002	47.68	Hemvant Porte		BJP	111,706	34.36	43,296	13.32
12	Surguja (ST)	Khelsai Singh		INC	169,908	51.90	Larang Sai		BJP	122,916	37.55	46,992	14.35
13	Raigarh (ST)	Pushpadevi Singh		INC	194,080	53.13	Nand Kumar Sai		BJP	138,266	37.85	55,814	15.28
14	Janjgir	Bhawani Lal Verma		INC	159,573	41.91	Kunwar Dilip Singh Judeo		BJP	130,148	34.19	29,425	7.72
15	Bilaspur (SC)	Khelan Ram Jangde		INC	175,642	53.24	Govind Ram Miri		BJP	137,681	41.73	37,961	11.51
16	Sarangarh (SC)	Paras Ram Bharadwaj		INC	149,987	42.17	Resham Lal Jangde (Persadih)		BJP	104,975	29.51	45,012	12.66
17	Raipur	Vidyacharan Shukla		INC	188,335	45.09	Ramesh Bais		BJP	187,376	44.86	959	0.23
18	Mahasamund	Pawan Diwan		INC	205,362	48.86	Chandrashekar Sahu		BJP	183,883	43.75	21,479	5.11
19	Kanker (ST)	Arvind Netam		INC	154,567	49.86	Deolall Dugga		BJP	135,206	43.62	19,361	6.24
20	Bastar (ST)	Mankuram Sodhi		INC	87,993	44.87	Rajaram Todem		BJP	70,973	36.19	17,020	8.68
21	Durg	Chandulal Chandrakar		INC	270,506	49.47	Manarakhan Lal Sahu		BJP	182,767	33.42	87,739	16.05
22	Rajnandgaon	Shivendra Bahadur Singh		INC	178,132	46.83	Dharampal Singh Gupta		BJP	130,722	34.36	47,410	12.47
23	Balaghat	Vishveshwar Bhagat		INC	185,491	40.82	Gourishankar Chaturbhuj		BJP	129,265	28.45	56,226	12.37
24	Mandla (ST)	Mohan Lal		INC	165,607	63.26	Ram Bhajan		BJP	77,934	29.77	87,673	33.49
25	Jabalpur	Shrawan Kumar Patel		INC	172,149	44.20	Baburao Paranjpe		BJP	165,427	42.47	6,722	1.73
26	Seoni	Vimla Verma		INC	221,896	54.66	Prahlad Singh Patel		BJP	166,338	40.98	55,558	13.68
27	Chhindwara	Kamal Nath		INC	214,456	55.98	Choudhari Chanderbhan		BJP	134,824	35.19	79,632	20.79
28	Betul	Aslam-Sher-Khan		INC	153,756	51.69	Arif Baig		BJP	131,023	44.05	22,733	7.64
29	Hoshangabad	Sartaj Singh		BJP	206,157	47.81	Rameshwar Nikhra		INC	197,703	45.85	8,454	1.96
30	Bhopal	Sushil Chandra Verma		BJP	308,946	53.61	Mansoor Ali Khan Patodi		INC	206,738	35.88	102,208	17.73
31	Vidisha	Atal Bihari Vajpayee		BJP	279,232	58.81	Pratap Bhanu Sharma		INC	175,098	36.88	104,134	21.93
32	Rajgarh	Digvijay Singh		INC	219,736	48.60	Pyarelal Khandelwal		BJP	218,266	48.27	1,470	0.33
33	Shajapur (SC)	Phoolchand Verma		BJP	265,553	56.79	Bapulal Malviya		INC	187,305	40.06	78,248	16.73
34	Khandwa	Mahender Kumar Singh		INC	230,142	49.74	Amritlal Tarawala (Manni Bhai)		BJP	213,367	46.11	16,775	3.63
35	Khargone	Rameshwar Patidar		BJP	220,679	49.50	Subhashchandra Ganga Ram Yadav		INC	206,884	46.41	13,795	3.09
36	Dhar (ST)	Surajbhanu Solanki		INC	243,385	52.72	Dhirendrasingh Chouhan		BJP	203,906	44.17	39,479	8.55
37	Indore	Sumitra Mahajan		BJP	303,269	54.88	Lalit Jain		INC	222,675	40.30	80,594	14.58
38	Ujjain (SC)	Satyanarayan Jatiya		BJP	238,904	54.40	Sajjansingh Verma		INC	187,184	42.63	51,720	11.77
39	Jhabua (ST)	Dileepsingh Bhuria		INC	249,304	62.72	Relam Chauhan		BJP	114,902	28.91	134,402	33.81
40	Mandsaur	Laxminarain Pandey		BJP	307,927	47.78	Mahendra Singh		INC	300,944	46.69	6,983	1.09

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Madhya Pradesh

SI No.	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To	Party
1	Arjun Singh	Satna	Cabinet Minister	Human Resource Development	21 June 1991	24 December 1994		INC
2	Madhavrao Scindia	Gwalior		Civil Aviation and Tourism	21 June 1991	9 January 1993
				Human Resource Development	10 February 1995	17 January 1996
3	Vidya Charan Shukla	Raipur		Water Resources	21 June 1991	17 January 1996
4	Kamal Nath	Chhindwara	Minister of State (Independent Charge)	Environment and Forests	21 June 1991	15 September 1995
				Textiles	15 September 1995	20 February 1996
5	Arvind Netam	Kanker (ST)	Minister of State	Agriculture	18 January 1993	20 February 1996
6	Aslam Sher Khan	Betul		Prime Minister’s Office	15 September 1995	16 May 1995
				Welfare
7	Vimla Verma	Seoni		Welfare (Women and Child Development)	15 September 1995	16 May 1996

References

1. https://zeenews.india.com/lok-sabha-general-elections-2019/history-revisited-how-political-parties-fared-in-1991-lok-sabha-election-2193229.html
2. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1991 TO THE TENTH LOK SABHA, VOLUME 1 (Report).
3. https://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/Links/Books/91_Vol_I.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}

External links

• Election Commission of India