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The Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election, 2008 was held on 14 and 20 November 2008, to select the 90 members of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. The results of the election were announced on 8 December. The Bharatiya Janata Party won the popular vote and a majority of seats and the incumbent Chief Minister Raman Singh was sworn in as Chief minister for his second term. [1]
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 4,332,834 | 40.35 | 50 | 0 | |
| Indian National Congress | 4,146,853 | 38.62 | 38 | +1 | |
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 656,041 | 6.11 | 2 | 0 | |
| Nationalist Congress Party | 56,293 | 0.52 | 0 | –1 | |
| Others | 635,584 | 5.92 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 909,686 | 8.47 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 10,737,291 | 100.00 | 90 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 10,737,291 | 99.93 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 7,896 | 0.07 | |||
| Total votes | 10,745,187 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 15,218,560 | 70.61 | |||
| Source: ECI [2] | |||||
| Division | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | INC | BSP | ||
| Surguja | 14 | 9 | 5 | - |
| Central Chhattisgarh | 64 | 30 | 32 | 2 |
| Bastar | 12 | 11 | 1 | - |
| Total | 90 | 50 | 37 | 3 |
| District | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | INC | BSP | ||
| Koriya | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| Surguja | 8 | 4 | 4 | - |
| Jashpur | 3 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Raigarh | 5 | 1 | 4 | - |
| Korba | 4 | 1 | 3 | - |
| Bilaspur | 9 | 6 | 3 | - |
| Janjgir-Champa | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Mahasamund | 4 | - | 4 | - |
| Raipur | 13 | 7 | 6 | - |
| Dhamtari | 3 | - | 3 | - |
| Durg | 12 | 8 | 4 | - |
| Kawardha | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Rajnandgaon | 6 | 4 | 2 | - |
| Kanker | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| Bastar | 6 | 6 | - | - |
| Dantewada | 3 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Total | 90 | 50 | 38 | 2 |
| Constituency | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Candidate | Party | Votes | Candidate | Party | Votes | |||
| Koriya district | ||||||||||
| 1 | Bharatpur-Sonhat (ST) | Phoolchand Singh | BJP | 35443 | Gulab Singh | INC | 28145 | 7298 | ||
| 2 | Manendragarh | Deepak Kumar Patel | BJP | 30912 | Ramanuj | NCP | 16630 | 14282 | ||
| 3 | Baikunthpur | Bhaiyalal Rajwade | BJP | 36215 | Bedanti Tiwari | INC | 30679 | 5536 | ||
| Surguja district | ||||||||||
| 4 | Premnagar | Renuka Singh | BJP | 56652 | Naresh Kumar Rajwade | INC | 40543 | 16109 | ||
| 5 | Bhatgaon | Ravi Shankar Tripathi | BJP | 35943 | Shyamlal Jaiswal | INC | 18510 | 17433 | ||
| 6 | Pratappur (ST) | Prem Sai Singh Tekam | INC | 54108 | Ram Sewak Paikra | BJP | 49863 | 4245 | ||
| 7 | Ramanujganj (ST) | Ramvichar Netam | BJP | 54562 | Brihaspat Singh | INC | 50352 | 4210 | ||
| 8 | Samri (ST) | Siddha Nath Paikra | BJP | 31878 | Chintamani Maharaj | Ind | 19474 | 30498 | ||
| 9 | Lundra (ST) | Ramdev Ram | INC | 51558 | Kamalbhan Singh Marabi | BJP | 43384 | 8174 | ||
| 10 | Ambikapur | T. S. Singh Deo | INC | 56043 | Anurag Singh Deo | BJP | 55063 | 980 | ||
| 11 | Sitapur (ST) | Amarjeet Bhagat | INC | 36281 | Ganesh Ram Bhagat | BJP | 34544 | 1737 | ||
| Jashpur district | ||||||||||
| 12 | Jashpur (ST) | Jageshwar Ram Bhagat | BJP | 64553 | Vinay Bhagat | INC | 48783 | 15770 | ||
| 13 | Kunkuri (ST) | Bharat Sai | BJP | 57113 | Uttamdan Minj | INC | 47521 | 9592 | ||
| 14 | Pathalgaon (ST) | Rampukar Singh Thakur | INC | 64543 | Vishnudeo Sai | BJP | 54627 | 9916 | ||
| Raigarh district | ||||||||||
| 15 | Lailunga (ST) | Hriday Ram Rathiya | INC | 62107 | Satyanand Rathia | BJP | 48026 | 14081 | ||
| 16 | Raigarh | Shakrajeet Nayak | INC | 72054 | Vijay Agrawal | BJP | 59110 | 12944 | ||
| 17 | Sarangarh (SC) | Padma Mahnar | INC | 61659 | Shamsher Singh | BJP | 50814 | 10845 | ||
| 18 | Kharsia | Nand Kumar Patel | INC | 81497 | Laxmi Devi Patel | BJP | 48069 | 33428 | ||
| 19 | Dharamjaigarh (ST) | Om Prakash Rathia | BJP | 52435 | Chanesh Ram Rathiya | INC | 49068 | 3367 | ||
| Korba district | ||||||||||
| 20 | Rampur (ST) | Nanki Ram Kanwar | BJP | 58415 | Pyarelal Kanwar | INC | 50094 | 8321 | ||
| 21 | Korba | Jai Singh Agrawal | INC | 48277 | Banwari Lal Agrawal | BJP | 47690 | 587 | ||
| 22 | Katghora | Bodhram Kanwar | INC | 79049 | Jyotinand Dubey | BJP | 31963 | 6966 | ||
| 23 | Pali-Tanakhar (ST) | Ram Dayal Uike | INC | 56676 | Hira Singh Markam | GGP | 27233 | 29443 | ||
| Bilaspur district | ||||||||||
| 24 | Marwahi (ST) | Ajit Jogi | INC | 67523 | Dhyan Singh Porte | BJP | 25431 | 42092 | ||
| 25 | Kota | Renu Jogi | INC | 55317 | Moolchand Khandelwal | BJP | 45506 | 9811 | ||
| 26 | Lormi | Dharmjeet Singh Thakur | INC | 48569 | Jawahar Sahu | BJP | 43580 | 4989 | ||
| 27 | Mungeli (SC) | Punnulal Mohle | BJP | 52074 | Churawan Mangeshkar | INC | 41749 | 10325 | ||
| 28 | Takhatpur | Raju Singh | BJP | 43431 | Balram Singh | INC | 37838 | 5593 | ||
| 29 | Bilha | Dharamlal Kaushik | BJP | 62517 | Siyaram Kaushik | INC | 56447 | 6070 | ||
| 30 | Bilaspur | Amar Agrawal | BJP | 60784 | Anil Kumar Tah | INC | 51408 | 9376 | ||
| 31 | Beltara | Badridhar Diwan | BJP | 38867 | Bhuvneshwar Yadav | INC | 33891 | 4976 | ||
| 32 | Masturi (SC) | Krishnamurti Bandhi | BJP | 54002 | Madan Singh Dharia | INC | 44794 | 9208 | ||
| Janjgir–Champa district | ||||||||||
| 33 | Akaltara | Saurabh Singh | BSP | 37393 | Chunnilal Sahu | INC | 34505 | 2888 | ||
| 34 | Janjgir-Champa | Narayan Chandel | BJP | 42006 | Motilal Dewangan | INC | 40816 | 1190 | ||
| 35 | Sakti | Saroja Manharan Rathore | INC | 47368 | Megharam Sahu | BJP | 37976 | 9392 | ||
| 36 | Chandrapur | Yudhvir Singh Judev | BJP | 48843 | Nobel Kumar Verma | NCP | 31553 | 17290 | ||
| 37 | Jaijaipur | Mahant Ramsunder Das | INC | 43346 | Keshav Prasad Chandra | BSP | 33907 | 9439 | ||
| 38 | Pamgarh (SC) | Dujaram Bouddh | BSP | 39534 | Ambesh Jangde | BJP | 33579 | 5955 | ||
| Mahasamund district | ||||||||||
| 39 | Saraipali (SC) | Haridas Bharadwaj | INC | 64456 | Nira Chauhan | BJP | 48234 | 16222 | ||
| 40 | Basna | Devendra Bahadur Singh | INC | 52145 | Premshankar Patel | BJP | 36238 | 15907 | ||
| 41 | Khallari | Paresh Bagbahara | INC | 66074 | Preetam Singh Diwan | BJP | 43569 | 22505 | ||
| 42 | Mahasamund | Agni Chandrakar | INC | 52667 | Motilal Sahu | BJP | 47623 | 5044 | ||
| Raipur district | ||||||||||
| 43 | Bilaigarh (SC) | Shiv Kumar Dahria | INC | 55863 | Sangam Jangade | BJP | 42241 | 13622 | ||
| 44 | Kasdol | Rajkamal Singhania | INC | 77661 | Yogesh Chandrakar | BJP | 50455 | 27206 | ||
| 45 | Baloda Bazar | Laxmi Baghel | BJP | 56788 | Ganesh Shankar Bajpai | INC | 51606 | 5182 | ||
| 46 | Bhatapara | Chaitram Sahu | INC | 58242 | Shivratan Sharma | BJP | 52010 | 6232 | ||
| 47 | Dharsiwa | Devjibhai Patel | BJP | 51396 | Chhatrapal Sirmour | INC | 45057 | 6339 | ||
| 48 | Raipur Rural | Nand Kumar Sahu | BJP | 46535 | Satyanarayan Sharma | INC | 43556 | 2979 | ||
| 49 | Raipur City West | Rajesh Munat | BJP | 51391 | Santosh Agrawal | INC | 36546 | 14845 | ||
| 50 | Raipur City North | Kuldeep Juneja | INC | 46982 | Sachhidanand Upasane | BJP | 45546 | 1436 | ||
| 51 | Raipur City South | Brijmohan Agrawal | BJP | 65686 | Yogesh Tiwari | INC | 40747 | 24939 | ||
| 52 | Arang (SC) | Guru Rudra Kumar | INC | 34655 | Sanjay Dhidhi | BJP | 33318 | 1337 | ||
| 53 | Abhanpur | Chandra Shekhar Sahu | BJP | 56249 | Dhanendra Sahu | INC | 54759 | 1490 | ||
| 54 | Rajim | Amitesh Shukla | INC | 55803 | Santosh Upadhyay | BJP | 51887 | 3916 | ||
| 55 | Bindrawagarh (ST) | Damrudhar Pujari | BJP | 67505 | Omkar Shah | INC | 50801 | 16704 | ||
| Dhamtari district | ||||||||||
| 56 | Sihawa (ST) | Ambika Markam | INC | 56048 | Pinky Shivraj Shah | BJP | 41152 | 14896 | ||
| 57 | Kurud | Lekhram Sahu | INC | 64299 | Ajay Chandrakar | BJP | 58094 | 6205 | ||
| 58 | Dhamtari | Gurumukh Singh Hora | INC | 76746 | Vipin Kumar Sahu | BJP | 49739 | 27007 | ||
| Durg district | ||||||||||
| 59 | Sanjari-Balod | Madanlal Sahu | BJP | 56620 | Mohan Patel | INC | 49984 | 6636 | ||
| 60 | Dondi Lohara (ST) | Neelima Singh Tekam | BJP | 41534 | Anita Kumeti | INC | 37547 | 3987 | ||
| 61 | Gunderdehi | Virendra Sahu | BJP | 64010 | Ghanaram Sahu | INC | 61425 | 2585 | ||
| 62 | Patan | Vijay Baghel | BJP | 59000 | Bhupesh Baghel | INC | 51158 | 7842 | ||
| 63 | Durg Gramin | Pratima Chandrakar | INC | 49710 | Preetpal Belchandan | BJP | 48153 | 1557 | ||
| 64 | Durg City | Hemchand Yadav | BJP | 53803 | Arun Vora | INC | 53101 | 702 | ||
| 65 | Bhilai Nagar | Badruddin Quraishi | INC | 52848 | Premprakash Pandey | BJP | 43985 | 8863 | ||
| 66 | Vaishali Nagar | Saroj Pandey | BJP | 63078 | Brij Mohan Singh | INC | 41811 | 21267 | ||
| 67 | Ahiwara (SC) | Domanlal Korsewada | BJP | 57795 | Oni Kumar Mahilang | INC | 45144 | 12651 | ||
| 68 | Saja | Ravindra Choubey | INC | 63775 | Labhchand Bafna | BJP | 58720 | 5055 | ||
| 69 | Bemetara | Tamradhwaj Sahu | INC | 57082 | Awadhesh Singh Chandel | BJP | 50609 | 6473 | ||
| 70 | Navagarh (SC) | Dayaldas Baghel | BJP | 53519 | Dheeru Prasad Ghritlahare | INC | 47012 | 6507 | ||
| Kawardha district | ||||||||||
| 71 | Pandariya | Mohammad Akbar | INC | 72397 | Lalji Chandravanshi | BJP | 70536 | 1861 | ||
| 72 | Kawardha | Siyaram Sahu | BJP | 78817 | Yogeshwar Raj Singh | INC | 68409 | 10408 | ||
| Rajnandgaon district | ||||||||||
| 73 | Khairagarh | Komal Janghel | BJP | 62437 | Motilal Janghel | INC | 42893 | 19544 | ||
| 74 | Dongargarh (SC) | Ramji Bharti | BJP | 57315 | Dinesh Patila | INC | 49900 | 7415 | ||
| 75 | Rajnandgaon | Raman Singh | BJP | 77230 | Uday Mudliyar | INC | 44841 | 32389 | ||
| 76 | Dongargaon | Kheduram Sahu | BJP | 61344 | Geeta Devi Singh | INC | 51937 | 9407 | ||
| 77 | Khujji | Bholaram Sahu | INC | 57594 | Jamnuadevi Thakur | BJP | 41475 | 16119 | ||
| 78 | Mohla-Manpur (ST) | Shivraj Singh Usare | INC | 43890 | Darbar Singh Manda | BJP | 37449 | 6441 | ||
| Kanker district | ||||||||||
| 79 | Antagarh (ST) | Vikram Usendi | BJP | 37255 | Manturam Pawar | INC | 37146 | 109 | ||
| 80 | Bhanupratappur (ST) | Brahmanand Netam | BJP | 41384 | Manoj Singh Mandavi | Ind | 25905 | 15479 | ||
| 81 | Kanker (ST) | Sumitra Markole | BJP | 46793 | Preeti Netam | INC | 29290 | 17503 | ||
| Bastar district | ||||||||||
| 82 | Keshkal (ST) | Sewakram Netam | BJP | 46006 | Dhannu Markam | INC | 37392 | 8614 | ||
| 83 | Kondagaon (ST) | Lata Usendi | BJP | 44691 | Mohan Markam | INC | 41920 | 2771 | ||
| 84 | Narayanpur (ST) | Kedar Nath Kashyap | BJP | 48459 | Rajnuram Netam | INC | 26824 | 21635 | ||
| 85 | Bastar (ST) | Subhau Kashyap | BJP | 39991 | Lakeshwar Baghel | INC | 38790 | 1201 | ||
| 86 | Jagdalpur | Santosh Bafna | BJP | 55003 | Rekchand Jain | INC | 37479 | 17524 | ||
| 87 | Chitrakot (ST) | Baiduram Kashyap | BJP | 31642 | Pratibha Shah | INC | 22411 | 9231 | ||
| Dantewada district | ||||||||||
| 88 | Dantewada (ST) | Bhima Mandavi | BJP | 36813 | Manish Kunjam | CPI | 24805 | 12008 | ||
| 89 | Bijapur (ST) | Mahesh Gagda | BJP | 20049 | Rajendra Pambhoi | INC | 9528 | 10521 | ||
| 90 | Konta (ST) | Kawasi Lakhma | INC | 21630 | Padam Nanda | BJP | 21438 | 192 | ||
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