The 230-member house is expected to throw up a tight race between the
ruling BJP and the Congress, with chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
looking to return to power for a fourth consecutive term.
However, the two parties may face a tough fight from Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP), who are banking on the state’s backward community population.
The BJP fielded candidates for all 230 seats while the Congress contested 229, leaving one seat, Jatara in Tikamgarh district, for the Sharad Yadav-led Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD).
2,716 candidates, of which, 9% are women, are contesting for the 200 seats.
The election was held in the state on November 28 and 75% of the 5.03 crore voters exercised their franchise, with around 1.64 lakh people having voted on an average in each constituency.
Exit polls are predicting an edge-of-the-seat thriller in Madhya Pradesh, with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress locked in a neck and neck race. Battling anti-incumbency of 15 years, incumbent chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan hopes to retain power for the fourth time in a row.
The Congress on the other hand, is banking on the triple anti-incumbency faced by the BJP government and hopes to storm back to power in the state which was once its bastion. The majority mark in the 230-seat house is 116
In the 2013 polls, BJP had bagged a whopping majority of 165 seats while Congress and BSP got 58 and 4. Three independent MLAs also won the polls
However, the two parties may face a tough fight from Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP), who are banking on the state’s backward community population.
The BJP fielded candidates for all 230 seats while the Congress contested 229, leaving one seat, Jatara in Tikamgarh district, for the Sharad Yadav-led Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD).
2,716 candidates, of which, 9% are women, are contesting for the 200 seats.
The election was held in the state on November 28 and 75% of the 5.03 crore voters exercised their franchise, with around 1.64 lakh people having voted on an average in each constituency.
Exit polls are predicting an edge-of-the-seat thriller in Madhya Pradesh, with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress locked in a neck and neck race. Battling anti-incumbency of 15 years, incumbent chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan hopes to retain power for the fourth time in a row.
The Congress on the other hand, is banking on the triple anti-incumbency faced by the BJP government and hopes to storm back to power in the state which was once its bastion. The majority mark in the 230-seat house is 116
Who will win Madhya Pradesh? Congress now leading in 113 seats, BJP in 106
The
Congress is leading in 113 seats in Madhya Pradesh, with the BJP behind
in 106, according to latest trends by the Election Commission. The
vote share, however, is 41.3% with the BJP and 41.2% with the Congress.
In the 2013 polls, BJP had bagged a whopping majority of 165 seats while Congress and BSP got 58 and 4. Three independent MLAs also won the polls
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