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The 2009 Indian general election for Madhya Pradesh polls were held for 29 seats in the state. The major two contenders in the state were Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC). The BJP was expected to perform well as it had won the assembly elections conducted in the state during November–December 2008. [1]
The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won 16 seats, Indian National Congress (INC) 12 seats whereas the Bahujan Samaj Party won one seat.
| Parties and coalitions | Seats | Popular vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contested | Won | +/− | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 29 | 16 |  9 | 84,65,524 | 43.45% | 4.68% | |
| Indian National Congress | 29 | 12 |  8 | 78,20,333 | 40.14% | 6.07% | |
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 28 | 1 | 1 | 11,40,044 | 5.85% | 1.1% | |
| Samajwadi Party | 18 | 0 | - | 5,51,341 | 2.82% | 0.38% | |
| Gondwana Ganatantra Party | 13 | 0 | - | 1,20,182 | 0.62% | 2.43% | |
| Independents | 213 | 0 | - | 9,57,495 | 4.91% | 0.89% | |
| Total | 29 | 1,94,84,608 | |||||
| Valid votes | 1,94,84,608 | 99.97 | |||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 1,94,88,914 | 51.17 | |||||
| Abstentions | 1,85,96,265 | 48.83 | |||||
| Registered voters | 3,80,85,179 | 100.0 | |||||
Source: Election Commission of India [2]
Keys: BJP (16) INC (12) BSP (1)
| Parliamentary Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | Type | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote% | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote% | Votes | % | |||
| 1. | Morena | GEN | 53.04 | Narendra Singh Tomar | BJP | 3,00,647 | 42.30 | Ramniwas Rawat | INC | 1,99,650 | 28.09 | 1,00,997 | 14.21 | ||
| 2. | Bhind | SC | 38.39 | Ashok Argal | BJP | 2,27,365 | 43.41 | Bhagirath Prasad | INC | 2,08,479 | 39.8 | 18,886 | 3.61 | ||
| 3. | Gwalior | GEN | 41.12 | Yashodhara Raje Scindia | BJP | 2,52,314 | 43.19 | Ashok Singh | INC | 2,25,723 | 38.64 | 26,591 | 4.55 | ||
| 4. | Guna | GEN | 54.03 | Jyotiraditya Scindia | INC | 4,13,297 | 63.60 | Narottam Mishra | BJP | 1,63,560 | 25.17 | 2,49,737 | 38.43 | ||
| 5. | Sagar | GEN | 48.12 | Bhupendra Singh | BJP | 3,23,954 | 56.80 | Aslam Sher Khan | INC | 1,92,786 | 33.80 | 1,31,168 | 23.0 | ||
| 6. | Tikamgarh | SC | 43.42 | Virendra Kumar | BJP | 2,00,109 | 38.10 | Vrindavan Ahirwar | INC | 1,58,247 | 30.13 | 41,862 | 7.97 | ||
| 7. | Damoh | GEN | 44.12 | Shivraj Singh Lodhi | BJP | 3,02,673 | 50.52 | Chandrabhan | INC | 2,31,796 | 38.69 | 70,877 | 11.83 | ||
| 8. | Khajuraho | GEN | 43.12 | Jeetendra Singh Bundela | BJP | 2,29,369 | 39.34 | Raja Paterya | INC | 2,01,037 | 34.48 | 28,332 | 4.86 | ||
| 9. | Satna | GEN | 54.63 | Ganesh Singh | BJP | 1,94,624 | 29.51 | Sukhlal Kushwaha | BSP | 1,90,206 | 28.84 | 4,418 | 0.67 | ||
| 10. | Rewa | GEN | 48.34 | Deoraj Singh Patel | BSP | 1,72,002 | 28.49 | Sundar Lal Tiwari | INC | 1,67,981 | 27.83 | 4,021 | 0.66 | ||
| 11. | Sidhi | GEN | 49.75 | Govind Prasad Mishra | BJP | 2,70,914 | 40.09 | Indrajeet Kumar | INC | 2,25,174 | 33.32 | 45,740 | 6.77 | ||
| 12. | Shahdol | ST | 49.50 | Rajesh Nandini Singh | INC | 2,63,434 | 41.86 | Narendra Maravi | BJP | 2,50,019 | 39.73 | 13,415 | 2.13 | ||
| 13. | Jabalpur | GEN | 43.80 | Rakesh Singh | BJP | 3,43,922 | 54.29 | Rameshwar Neekhra | INC | 2,37,919 | 37.56 | 1,06,003 | 16.73 | ||
| 14. | Mandla | ST | 56.25 | Basori Singh Masram | INC | 3,91,133 | 45.50 | Faggan Singh Kulaste | BJP | 3,26,080 | 37.94 | 65,053 | 7.56 | ||
| 15. | Balaghat | GEN | 56.49 | K. D. Deshmukh | BJP | 2,99,959 | 39.65 | Vishveshvar Bhagat | INC | 2,59,140 | 34.25 | 40,819 | 5.4 | ||
| 16. | Chhindwara | GEN | 71.86 | Kamal Nath | INC | 4,09,736 | 49.41 | Marot Rao Khavase | BJP | 2,88,516 | 34.79 | 1,21,220 | 14.62 | ||
| 17. | Hoshangabad | GEN | 54.82 | Uday Pratap Singh | INC | 3,39,496 | 47.73 | Rampal Singh | BJP | 3,20,251 | 45.03 | 19,245 | 2.7 | ||
| 18. | Vidisha | GEN | 45.09 | Sushma Swaraj | BJP | 4,38,235 | 78.80 | Choudhary Munabbar Salim | SP | 48,391 | 8.7 | 3,89,844 | 70.1 | ||
| 19. | Bhopal | GEN | 45.07 | Kailash Joshi | BJP | 3,35,678 | 50.95 | Surendra Singh Thakur | INC | 2,70,521 | 41.06 | 65,157 | 9.89 | ||
| 20. | Rajgarh | GEN | 51.57 | Narayansingh Amlabe | INC | 3,19,371 | 49.11 | Lakshman Singh | BJP | 2,94,983 | 45.36 | 24,388 | 3.75 | ||
| 21. | Dewas | SC | 60.35 | Sajjan Singh Verma | INC | 3,76,421 | 48.08 | Thawar Chand Gehlot | BJP | 3,60,964 | 46.1 | 15,457 | 1.98 | ||
| 22. | Ujjain | SC | 53.25 | Guddu Premchand | INC | 3,26,905 | 48.97 | Satyanarayan Jatiya | BJP | 3,11,064 | 46.6 | 15,841 | 2.37 | ||
| 23. | Mandsour | GEN | 55.83 | Meenakshi Natrajan | INC | 3,73,532 | 48.80 | Laxminarayan Pandey | BJP | 3,42,713 | 44.77 | 30,819 | 4.03 | ||
| 24. | Ratlam | ST | 50.93 | Kantilal Bhuria | INC | 3,08,923 | 48.46 | Dileep Singh Bhuria | BJP | 2,51,255 | 39.42 | 57,668 | 9.04 | ||
| 25. | Dhar | ST | 54.69 | Gajendra Singh Rajukhedi | INC | 3,02,660 | 46.23 | Mukam Singh Kirade | BJP | 2,99,999 | 45.82 | 2,661 | 0.41 | ||
| 26. | Indore | GEN | 50.76 | Sumitra Mahajan | BJP | 3,88,662 | 48.77 | Satyanarayan Patel | INC | 3,77,182 | 47.33 | 11,480 | 1.44 | ||
| 27. | Khargone | ST | 60.18 | Makhansingh Solanki | BJP | 3,51,296 | 46.19 | Balram Bachchan | INC | 3,17,121 | 41.70 | 34,175 | 4.49 | ||
| 28. | Khandwa | GEN | 60.01 | Arun Subhashchandra Yadav | INC | 3,94,241 | 48.53 | Nandkumar Singh Chauhan | BJP | 3,45,160 | 42.49 | 49,081 | 6.04 | ||
| 29. | Betul | ST | 49.47 | Jyoti Dhurve | BJP | 3,34,939 | 52.62 | Ojharam Evane | INC | 2,37,622 | 37.33 | 97,317 | 15.29 | ||
| S No. | Minister | Party | Lok Sabha Seat/Rajya Sabha | Portfolios | Term Start | Term End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Kamal Nath | Indian National Congress | Chhindwara | Minister of Road Transport and Highways | 28 May 2009 | 19 Jan 2011 | |
| Minister of Urban Development | 19 Jan 2011 | 26 May 2014 | |||||
| Minister of Parliamentary Affairs | 28 Oct 2012 | 26 May 2014 | |||||
| 2. | Kantilal Bhuria | Ratlam | Minister of Tribal Affairs | 28 May 2009 | 12 July 2012 | ||
| 4. | Jyotiraditya Scindia | Guna | Minister of Power | 28 Oct 2012 | 26 May 2014 | ||
| S No. | Minister | Party | Lok Sabha Seat/Rajya Sabha | Portfolios | Term Start | Term End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Jyotiraditya Scindia | Indian National Congress | Guna | Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry | 28 May 2009 | 28 Oct 2012 | |
| 2. | Arun Yadav | Khandwa | Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports | 28 May 2009 | 14 June 2009 | ||
| Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises | 14 June 2009 | 19 Jan 2011 | |||||
| Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries | 19 Jan 2011 | 14 July 2011 | |||||
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