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| Registered | 36,266,969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 69.63%  2.38% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election was declared by the Election Commission of India on 14 October 2008. Elections for 230 seats took place on 27 November 2008, and counting started on 8 December. [1] [2] [3] [4] The Bharatiya Janata Party won a majority of seats and Shivraj Singh Chouhan was sworn in as the Chief Minister for the second time. [5]
The election was mainly contested between two national parties, Bharatiya Janata Party and Indian National Congress. Other parties included Bahujan Samaj Party, Bharatiya Jan Shakti Party, and Samajwadi Party
Source: ECI [6]
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| # | Party | Seats Contested | Seats won | Seats Changed | Votes | % Votes | |||
| 1 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 228 | 143 | - 30 | 9493641 | 37.64 | |||
| 2 | Indian National Congress | 228 | 71 | + 33 | 8170318 | 32.39 | |||
| 3 | Bahujan Samaj Party | 228 | 7 | + 5 | 2262119 | 8.97 | |||
| 4 | Bharatiya Jan Shakti Party | 201 | 5 | + 5 | 1189151 | 4.71 | |||
| 5 | Independents | 3 | + 1 | 2076453 | 8.23 | ||||
| 6 | Samajwadi Party | 187 | 1 | - 6 | 501324 | 1.90 | |||
| Total | 230 | ||||||||
| Valid votes | 2,52,23,101 | 99.91 | |||||||
| Invalid votes | 24875 | 0.09 | |||||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 2,52,50,951 | 69.63 | |||||||
| Abstentions | 1,10,16,018 | 30.37 | |||||||
| Registered voters | 3,62,66,969 | ||||||||
| Region | Total seats | BJP | INC | BSP | BJSP | IND | SP |
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| Bagelkhand | 22 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bhopal | 25 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bundelkhand | 26 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Gird | 34 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mahakoshal | 46 | 29 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Malwa | 50 | 27 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Narmadapuram | 11 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Nimar | 16 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 230 | 143 | 71 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
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Bina is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes since 2008, following the delimitation of the Legislative Assembly constituencies.
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Hatta is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes since 2008, following delimitation of the legislative assembly constituencies.
Rampur-Baghelan Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state. This constituency was abolished in 1961 but came into existence again in 1966.
Panna Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951 as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state.
Neemuch Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951 as one of the 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state.
Gunnaor is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 2008, following the delimitation of the legislative assembly constituencies and presently reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes.
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