Even though the Congress had prominent leaders like former chief ministers Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh campaigning for them, they couldn’t give tough competition to the BJP.
As of now, the BJP has already won 137 seats in the 230-member Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly and is leading in 28 more seats. The BJP’s performance is quite strong in these elections.
MP: CM Shivraj Chouhan, Narendra Tomar, Jyotiraditya Scindia watch election results in Bhopal
Union Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar won from the Dhimani Assembly seat in his home district Morena. He got more than 24,000 votes than the BSP candidate Balveer Singh Dandotiya. Another Union minister, Prahlad Singh Patel, also won from the Narsinghpur Assembly, defeating the Congress candidate Lakhan Singh Patel by a lot of votes.
Kailash Vijayvargiya, who is a big leader in the BJP, won from the Indore-1 seat, beating the Congress MLA Sanjya Shukla by a lot of votes too.
However, Faggan Singh Kulaste, who is also a Union minister, didn’t win. He lost to the Congress candidate Chain Singh Warkade by about 9,723 votes.
Here are the biggest and narrowest margins of victory in the 2023 MP elections:
Top 10 narrowest vote margins:
Top 10 highest vote margins:
The BJP did well in these elections. The saffron party has comfortably crossed the halfway mark (115) even as the counting of votes is still underway.
According to the Election Commission, they won 137 seats out of 230 and were leading in 30 more. Meanwhile, the Congress won 44 seats and was leading in 20 more. This shows that the BJP is strong in Madhya Pradesh politics.
In the 2018 assembly elections, the Congress won 114 seats to form a government, while the BJP was restricted to 109.
MP Exit Poll 2023: Chanakya projects BJP sweep with 151 seats on 230 seats, Congress: 74, Others: 5
The Bharatiya Janata Party won the assembly elections in 2003 under Uma Bharti. The party scored victories in subsequent contests in 2008 and 2013 but lost to Congress in 2018. The BJP remained out of power from December 2018 to March 2020 when Congress leader Kamal Nath became chief minister.
However, the saffron party returned to power in March 2020 under Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who became the chief minister for the first time in 2005. He went on to become the longest-serving chief minister in the state.