1998 Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh

Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh, 1998
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40 seats
Prime Minister before election; I. K. Gujral ; JD	Prime Minister after election; A. B. Vajpayee ; BJP

Last updated January 02, 2026

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

National Democratic Alliance

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

	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

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Results of Indian general election, 1998 in Madhya Pradesh
Parties and coalitions		Seats			Popular vote
Parties and coalitions		Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%	±pp
	Bharatiya Janata Party	40	30	3	1,23,15,405	45.73%	4.41%
	Indian National Congress	40	10	2	1,06,11,317	39.4%	8.38%
	Bahujan Samaj Party	35	0	-	23,43,027	8.7%	0.52%
	Janata Party	18	0	-	3,28,989	1.22%	1.14%
	Samajwadi Party	12	0	-	1,75,461	0.65%	0.57%
	Gondwana Ganatantra Party	12	0	-	1,78,447	0.66%	0.62%
	Independents	128	0	-	3,55,110	1.32%	8.25%

Total		40			2,69,30,007
Invalid votes		6,06,377	2.2
Votes cast / turnout		2,75,41,607	61.74
Registered voters		4,46,07,368	100.00

Constituency-wise results

Keys: BJP (30) ^[2] INC (10)

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
Constituency		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Morena (SC)	Ashok Chhabiram		BJP	2,77,499	43.44	Pritam Prasad		BSP	2,09,378	32.77	68,121	10.67
2	Bhind	Dr. Ram Lakhan Singh		BJP	2,92,682	42.27	Kedar Nath Kachhi		BSP	1,93,774	27.99	98,908	14.28
3	Gwalior	Madhavrao Scindia		INC	2,84,365	39.77	Jaybhan Singh Pavaiya		BJP	2,58,086	36.09	26,279	3.68
4	Guna	Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia		BJP	3,36,151	46.67	Devendra Singh		INC	2,33,153	32.37	1,02,998	14.30
5	Sagar (SC)	Virendra Kumar		BJP	3,36,638	56.99	Nandlal Parmanand Choudhary		INC	1,88,234	31.87	1,48,404	25.12
6	Khajuraho	Uma Bharti		BJP	3,51,607	43.40	Shriram		INC	2,47,760	30.58	1,03,847	12.82
7	Damoh	Dr. Ramkrishna Kusmaria		BJP	3,12,057	44.40	Nareshchand		INC	1,81,459	25.82	1,30,598	18.58
8	Satna	Ramanand Singh		BJP	2,63,011	36.58	Rajendra Kumar Singh		INC	2,18,526	30.39	44,485	6.19
9	Rewa	Chandramani Tripathi		BJP	2,76,367	36.68	Bhim Singh Patel		BSP	2,07,394	27.53	68,973	9.15
10	Sidhi (ST)	Jagannath Singh		BJP	2,75,803	38.89	Tilak Raj Singh		INC	2,29,271	32.33	46,532	6.56
11	Shahdol (ST)	Gyan Singh		BJP	2,96,764	43.76	Dalveer Singh		INC	2,57,030	37.90	39,734	5.86
12	Surguja (ST)	Larang Sai		BJP	2,95,452	44.48	Khel Sai Singh		INC	2,74,832	41.37	20,620	3.11
13	Raigarh (ST)	Ajit Jogi		INC	3,25,112	48.27	Nandkumar Sai		BJP	3,20,730	47.62	4,382	0.65
14	Janjgir	Charandas Mahant		INC	2,90,175	40.50	Manharan Lal Pandey		BJP	2,45,589	34.28	44,586	6.22
15	Bilaspur (SC)	Punnulal Mohle		BJP	2,74,793	47.60	Kanya Kumari Alias Tanya Anuragi		INC	2,26,178	39.18	48,615	8.42
16	Sarangarh (SC)	Paras Ram Bharadwaj		INC	2,17,558	34.62	P. R. Khute		BJP	2,11,171	33.60	6,387	1.02
17	Raipur	Ramesh Bais		BJP	3,44,380	49.42	Vidyacharan Shukl		INC	2,61,001	37.46	83,379	11.96
18	Mahasamund	Chandrashekhar Sahu (Champu)		BJP	3,32,874	49.76	Pawan Diwan		INC	2,85,142	42.62	47,732	7.14
19	Kanker (ST)	Sohan Potai		BJP	2,70,121	45.97	Mahendra Karma		INC	2,15,751	36.72	54,370	9.25
20	Bastar (ST)	Baliram Kashyap		BJP	1,51,484	42.27	Mankuram Sodi		INC	1,34,603	37.56	16,881	4.71
21	Durg	Tarachand Sahu		BJP	3,84,901	50.45	Jageshwar Sahu		INC	3,16,183	41.45	68,718	9.00
22	Rajnandgaon	Motilal Vora		INC	3,04,709	50.61	Ashok Sharma		BJP	2,52,468	41.93	52,241	8.68
23	Balaghat	Gaurishankar Chaturbhuj Bisen		BJP	2,40,066	40.27	Vishaveshwar Bhagat		INC	2,14,535	35.99	25,531	4.28
24	Mandla (ST)	Faggan Singh Kulaste		BJP	2,68,739	47.74	Chhote Lal Uike		INC	2,55,227	45.34	13,512	2.40
25	Jabalpur	Dada Baburao Paranjpe		BJP	3,00,584	46.86	Dr. Alok Chansoria		INC	2,16,469	33.75	84,115	13.11
26	Seoni	Vimla Varma		INC	3,12,097	47.88	Prahlad Singh Patel		BJP	2,88,376	44.24	23,721	3.64
27	Chhindwara	Kamalnath		INC	4,06,249	58.40	Sundarlal Patwa		BJP	2,52,851	36.35	1,53,398	22.05
28	Betul	Vijay Kumar Khandelwal (Munni Bhaiya)		BJP	2,84,091	50.54	Dr. Ashok Sable		INC	2,44,425	43.48	39,666	7.06
29	Hoshangabad	Sartaj Singh		BJP	3,87,395	53.15	Arjun Singh		INC	3,18,414	43.68	68,981	9.47
30	Bhopal	Sushil Chandra Verma		BJP	4,94,481	57.44	Arif Baig		INC	3,00,549	34.91	1,93,932	22.53
31	Vidisha	Shivraj Singh		BJP	3,74,406	56.99	Ashutosh Dayal Sharma		INC	2,36,548	36.01	1,37,858	20.98
32	Rajgarh	Laxman Singh		INC	3,52,289	50.13	Kailash Joshi		BJP	2,96,055	42.12	56,234	8.01
33	Shajapur (SC)	Gehlot Thavarchand		BJP	3,71,571	49.03	Sajjansingh Verma		INC	3,52,577	46.52	18,994	2.51
34	Khandwa	Nandkumar Singh Chouhan (Nandu Bhaiya)		BJP	3,34,340	51.80	Tha. Mahendra Kumar Singh (Manne Bhaiya)		INC	2,89,820	44.90	44,520	6.90
35	Khargone	Rameshwar Patidar		BJP	3,11,394	48.31	Bondarsingh		INC	2,90,715	45.11	20,679	3.20
36	Dhar (ST)	Gajendra Singh Rajukhedi		INC	3,44,858	51.29	Hemlata Chhatar Singh Darbar		BJP	3,23,765	48.16	21,093	3.13
37	Indore	Sumitra Mahajan		BJP	4,40,047	52.00	Pankaj Sanghvi		INC	3,90,195	46.11	49,852	5.89
38	Ujjain (SC)	Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya		BJP	3,48,405	56.07	Dr. Avantika Prasad Marmat		INC	2,54,518	40.96	93,887	15.11
39	Jhabua (ST)	Kantilal Bhuriya		INC	3,07,735	53.05	Dilip Singh Bhuriya		BJP	2,25,362	38.85	82,373	14.20
40	Mandsaur	Dr. Laxminarayan Pandey		BJP	4,12,849	49.43	Narendra Bhanwarlal Nahata		INC	3,95,147	47.31	17,702	2.12

References

↑ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1998 TO THE 12th LOK SABHA" (PDF). CEO Madhya Pradesh. New Delhi: Election Commission of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-04-13.
↑ "1998 Lok Sabha election results for Madhya Pradesh [1947 - 1999]". indiavotes.com. Archived from the original on 2024-04-01. Retrieved 2024-03-31.

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[1] "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1998 TO THE 12th LOK SABHA" (PDF). CEO Madhya Pradesh. New Delhi: Election Commission of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-04-13.

[2] "1998 Lok Sabha election results for Madhya Pradesh [1947 - 1999]". indiavotes.com. Archived from the original on 2024-04-01. Retrieved 2024-03-31.

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