1999 Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh

Last updated June 08, 2024

In the 1999 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 29 seats. The remaining 11 seats were won by Indian National Congress (INC).^[1]

Result

Results of Indian general election, 1999 in Madhya Pradesh
Parties and coalitions		Seats			Popular vote
Parties and coalitions		Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%	±pp
	Bharatiya Janata Party	40	29	1	1,18,11,850	46.58%	0.85%
	Indian National Congress	40	11	1	1,11,35,161	43.91%	4.51%
	Bahujan Samaj Party	27	0	-	13,26,558	5.23%	3.47%
	Samajwadi Party	20	0	-	3,46,848	1.37%	0.72%
	Gondwana Ganatantra Party	15	0	-	90,931	0.36%	0.3%
	Independents	116	0	-	2,73,286	1.08%	0.24%

Total		40			2,53,56,859
Invalid votes		3,83,794	1.49
Votes cast / turnout		2,57,46,824	54.88
Registered voters		4,69,15,473	100.00

Constituency-wise results

Keys: BJP (29) ^[2] INC (11)

Parliamentary Constituency			Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
No.	Name	Type	Turnout	Candidate	Party		Votes	Vote%	Candidate	Party		Votes	Vote%	Votes	%
1.	Morena	SC	39.74	Ashok Argal		BJP	2,10,790		Barelal Jatav		INC	1,48,564		62,226	12.53
2.	Bhind	GEN	51.12	Ramlakhan Singh		BJP	2,70,766		Satyadev Katare		INC	2,17,192		53,574	8.1
3.	Gwalior	GEN	48.18	Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya		BJP	2,54,486		Chandra Mohan		INC	1,71,370		83,116	13.48
4.	Guna	GEN	53.81	Madhavrao Scindia		INC	4,43,965		Rao Deshraj Singh		BJP	2,29,537		2,14,428	31.56
5.	Sagar	SC	48.46	Virendra Kumar		BJP	2,93,357		Madhavi Chaudhary		INC	2,32,884		60,473	11.26
6.	Khajuraho	GEN	54.12	Satyavrat Chaturvedi		INC	3,35,861		Akhand Pratap Singh		BJP	2,54,724		81,137	11.06
7.	Damoh	GEN	46.1	Ramkrishna Kusmaria		BJP	2,46,909		Tilak Singh Lodhi		INC	2,33,190		13,719	2.43
8.	Satna	GEN	52.59	Ramanand Singh		BJP	2,17,932		Rajendra Kumar Singh		INC	2,14,527		3,405	0.55
9.	Rewa	GEN	54.64	Sundar Lal Tiwari		BJP	2,75,115		Ramlakhan Singh Patel		BSP	2,10,964		64,151	8.67
10.	Sidhi	ST	48.7	Chandrapratap Singh		BJP	2,64,981		Tilakraj Singh		INC	2,60,126		4,855	0.8
11.	Shahdol	ST	49.76	Dalpat Singh Paraste		BJP	2,62,229		Ajit Jogi		INC	2,42,328		19,901	3.41
12.	Surguja	ST	54.31	Khel Sai Singh		INC	2,97,778		Larang Sai		BJP	2,36,352		61,426	10.58
13	Raigarh	ST	59.39	Vishnudeo Sai		BJP	2,76,244		Pushpa Devi Singh		INC	2,70,471		5,773	1.01
14	Janjgir	GEN	54.08	Charandas Mahant		INC	2,78,931		Banshilal Mahto		BJP	2,64,698		14,233	2.14
15	Bilaspur	SC	48.27	Punnulal Mohle		BJP	2,74,860		Rameshwar Kosariya		INC	1,99,527		75,333	14.33
16	Sarangarh	SC	53.05	P. R. Khute		BJP	2,81,769		Parasram Bhardwaj		INC	2,30,010		51,759	7.67
17	Raipur	GEN	56.86	Ramesh Bais		BJP	3,54,736		Jugal Kishore Sahu		INC	2,74,676		80,060	12.11
18	Mahasamund	GEN	54.08	Shyama Charan Shukla		INC	3,40,635		Chandra Shekhar Mahto		BJP	3,25,200		15,435	2.26
19	Kanker	ST	56.54	Sohan Potai		BJP	3,18,040		Chhabila Netam		INC	2,29,849		88,191	15.36
20	Bastar	ST	39.35	Baliram Kashyap		BJP	1,55,421		Mahendra Karma		INC	1,34,684		20,737	5.82
21	Durg	GEN	58.06	Tarachand Sahu		BJP	3,89,777		Pradeep Choubey		INC	3,45,259		44,518	5.85
22	Rajnandgaon	GEN	59.37	Dr. Raman Singh		BJP	3,04,611		Motilal Vora		INC	2,77,896		26,715	4.51
23.	Balaghat	GEN	53.71	Prahlad Singh Patel		BJP	2,51,308		Vishweshwer Bhagat		INC	2,30,630		20,678	3.58
24.	Mandla	ST	49.35	Faggan Singh Kulaste		BJP	2,32,042		Devendra Tekam		INC	2,25,470		6,572	1.36
25.	Jabalpur	GEN	43.00	Jaishree Banerjee		BJP	3,00,648		Chandra Mohan		INC	1,90,894		1,09,754	20.77
26.	Seoni	GEN	53.58	Ram Naresh Tripathi		BJP	2,82,891		Vimla Verma		INC	2,66,957		15,934	2.72
27.	Chhindwara	GEN	50.31	Kamal Nath		INC	3,99,904		Santosh Jain		BJP	2,10,976		1,88,928	30.23
28.	Betul	GEN	53.51	Vijay Kumar Khandelwal		BJP	2,75,512		Gurfan Bhai		INC	2,08,040		64,472	12.07
29.	Hoshangabad	GEN	59.58	Sunder Lal Patwa		BJP	3,53,760		Rajkumar Patel		INC	3,09,313		44,447	6.57
30.	Bhopal	GEN	51.88	Uma Bharti		BJP	5,37,905		Suresh Pachouri		INC	3,69,041		1,68,864	17.29
31.	Vidisha	GEN	55.96	Shivraj Singh Chouhan		BJP	3,60,421		Jasvant Singh		INC	2,78,024		82,397	12.72
32.	Rajgarh	GEN	50.41	Lakshman Singh		INC	3,54,234		Nitish Bhardwaj		BJP	2,88,541		65,693	9.89
33.	Shajapur	SC	53.7	Thawarchand Gehlot		BJP	3,87,607		Radhakishan Malviya		INC	3,52,941		34,666	4.6
34.	Khandwa	GEN	56.85	Nand Kumar Singh Chauhan		BJP	3,64,161		Tanveer Singh Keer		INC	2,38,058		1,26,103	20.32
35.	Khargone	GEN	50.42	Tarachand Patel		INC	3,54,133		Balkrishna Patidar		BJP	3,15,987		38,146	5.56
36.	Dhar	ST	50.39	Gajendra Singh		INC	3,55,482		Harsh Chouhan		BJP	3,21,377		34,105	5.0
37.	Indore	GEN	56.46	Sumitra Mahajan		BJP	4,74,167		Mahesh Joshi		INC	3,42,852		1,31,315	15.9
38.	Ujjain	SC	50.82	Satyanarayan Jatiya		BJP	3,60,103		Tulsiram Silawat		INC	2,92,065		68,038	10.25
39.	Jhabua	ST	55.77	Kantilal Bhuria		INC	3,71,842		Dileep Singh Bhuria		BJP	2,22,465		1,49,377	24.88
40.	Mandsour	GEN	50.65	Laxminarayan Pandey		BJP	3,95,928		Rajendra Singh Gautam		INC	3,40,443		55,485	7.44

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