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

Last updated December 11, 2025

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			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

Result

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Results of Indian general election, 1996 in Madhya Pradesh
Parties and coalitions		Seats			Popular vote
Parties and coalitions		Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%	±pp
	Bharatiya Janata Party	39	27	15	94,72,940	41.32%	0.56%
	Indian National Congress	40	8	19	71,11,753	31.02%	14.32%
	Bahujan Samaj Party	28	2	1	18,74,594	8.18%	4.64%
	All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)	33	1	New	10,78,589	4.7%	New
	Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress	1	1	New	3,37,539	1.47%	New
	Independents	1046	1	1	21,94,115	9.57%	6.27%

Total		40			2,29,24,872
Invalid votes		8,20,541	3.46
Votes cast / turnout		2,37,48,322	54.06
Registered voters		4,39,27,252	100.00

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.
↑ "1996 में पहली बार सबसे बड़ी पार्टी बनकर उभरी भाजपा, 13 दिन के लिए पीएम बने अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 7 April 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2024.

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[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.

[2] "1996 में पहली बार सबसे बड़ी पार्टी बनकर उभरी भाजपा, 13 दिन के लिए पीएम बने अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 7 April 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2024.

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