MP election results 2023 HIGHLIGHTS: BJP clinches 163 seats in landslide win, Congress settles at 66

It was a landlside win for the BJP with 163 seats, Congress at distant second at 66 and Others at 1.

The Congress’ hopes of the Bharat Jodo Yatra paying dividends in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls were dashed on Sunday with the Bharatiya Janata Party winning 17 of the 21 seats from which the Rahul Gandhi-led programme passed. Between November 23 and December 4 last year, the yatra covered 380 kilometres through six districts of MP’s Malwa-Nimar region, namely Burhanpur, Khandwa, Khargone, Indore, Ujjain and Agar Malwa, which cumulatively have 21 seats.

In 2018, the BJP had won 14 of these seats, while the Congress emerged victorious on seven. This time, the BJP bettered its tally to 17, reducing the Congress to four seats. The BJP won Burhanpur (Archana Chitnis) and Nepanagar (Manju Dadu) Assembly segments in Burhanpur district. The Burhanpur seat was won in 2018 by Independent candidate Surendra Singh Shera, who was the Congress candidate in 2023.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 48.56% of the votes polled, while its rival Congress won 40.41% of the votes polled. Independents and other parties won 11.03% of the votes polled.

Yashpal Singh Sisodiya lost to Congress’ Vipin Jain by 2,049 votes in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsour.

As many as 12 ministers of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan cabinet, including home minister Narottam Mishra and ministers Arvind Bhadoria, Kamal Patel and Gaurishankar Bisen and eight other ministers lost the elections on Sunday.

BJP’s Devendra Kumar Jain ‘Patte Wale’ defeated KP Singh ‘Kakka Joo’ of the INC by 43,030votes.

BJP’s Jagannath Singh Raghuwanshi defeated Gopal Singh Chauhan of the INC by 21,768 votes.

BJP’s Mahendra Ramsingh Yadav Khatora defeated Baijnath Singh Yadav Dada Ji of the INC by 50,973 votes.

BJP’s Preetam Lodhi defeated Arvind Singh Lodhi of the INC by 21,882 votes.

BJP’s Rakesh Shukla defeated Rahul Singh Bhadouria of the INC by 22,010 votes.

BJP’s Mohan Singh Rathore defeated Lakhan Singh Yadav of the Congress Party by 22,354 votes.

BJP’s Pradeep Agrawal defeated Ghanshyam Singh of the INC by 2,558 votes.

The BJP will win all the 29 Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 elections, the Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.

BJP’s Narendra Singh Kushwah defeated Chaudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi of the INC by 14,146 votes.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday retained power in Madhya Pradesh, winning 141 seats, and is leading in 24, as per the latest Election Commission of India figures. The Congress’ plans to wrest power from the BJP were dashed as the grand old party has managed to win just 45 seats and is leading in 19 more. The Bharat Adivasi Party has won 1 seat.