Madhya Pradesh: Parliamentary elections

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Madhya Pradesh 2014

 

S.No.	Costituency	Name Of Member	Party
1	Balaghat	Bodhsingh Bhagat	BJP
2	Betul	Jyoti Dhurve	BJP
3	Bhind	Dr. Bhagirath Prasad	BJP
4	Bhopal	Alok Sanjar	BJP
5	Chhindwara	Kamal Nath	INC
6	Damoh	Prahalad Singh Patel	BJP
7	Dewas	Manohar Untwal	BJP
8	Dhar	Savitri Thakur	BJP
9	Guna	Jyotiraditya M Scindia	INC
10	Gwalior	Narendra Singh Tomar	BJP
11	Hoshangabad	Uday Pratap Singh	BJP
12	Indore	Sumitra Mahajan (Tai)	BJP
13	Jabalpur	Rakesh Singh	BJP
14	Khajuraho	Nagendra Singh	BJP
15	Khandwa	Nandkumar Singh Chouhan (Nandu Bhaiya)	BJP
16	Khargone	Subhash Patel	BJP
17	Mandla	Faggan Singh Kulaste	BJP
18	Mandsour	Sudhir Gupta	BJP
19	Morena	Anoop Mishra	BJP
20	Rajgarh	Rodmal Nagar	BJP
21	Ratlam	Dileepsingh Bhuria	BJP
22	Rewa	Janardan Mishra	BJP
23	Sagar	Laxmi Narayan Yadav	BJP
24	Satna	Ganesh Singh	BJP
25	Shahdol	Dalpat Singh Paraste	BJP
26	Sidhi	Riti Pathak	BJP
27	Tikamgarh	Dr. Virendra Kumar	BJP
28	Ujjain	Prof. Chintamani Malviya	BJP
29	Vidisha	Sushma Swaraj	BJP

 

 

2009, 2014

Shivraj concedes just 2 of 29 seats to Congres

Manjari Mishra

Bhopal: TNN

The Times of India May 17 2014

Madhya Pradesh 2014

Congres suffered a humiliating defeat in Madhya Pradesh on Friday five months after its rout in the assembly polls with the BJP bagging 27 out of 29 Lok Sabha seats.

This is likely to enhance chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s stature in the party and ensure his uninterrupted stint in Madhya Pradesh despite his proximity to L K Advani. Chouhan’s impressive performance would further consolidate his position vis-a-vis his bete noire, Uma Bharati, and silence his opponents.

Chouhan’s loyalists were quick to dissociate him from the defeats in Chhindwara and Guna. Modi addressed over a dozen rallies here in the run-up to the election, but he cancelled Chhindwara trip and Sushma Swaraj walked out of the Shivpuri rally in a huff after the BJP candidate there didn’t turn up to welcome her. A BJP leader said if such glitches hadn’t occurred “MP script could have been like Rajasthan and Gujarat”.

Congres veteran Kamal Nath bagged Chhindwara for the ninth time and Jyotiradiya Scindia managed to retain his family bastion Guna. The defeat of Congres state president Arun Yadav and his predecessor, Kantilal Bhuria, reflected widespread anger against the party . The defeat of Meenakshi Natrajan, a Rahul Gandhi favourite, is interpreted as a clear rejection of Congres vice-president's brand of politics. The Congres’s dismal performance could also nix Digvijay Singh’s plans of returning to the state politics. Only one slips past BJP in Chhattisgarh hhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh consolidated the C BJP's position in his state by winning 10 out of 11 Lok Sabha seats and regaining strength in tribal areas where the Congres had made inroads during the assembly polls. The BJP camp celebrated defeat of former Congres CM Ajit Jogi, who lost by just 1,556 votes to saffron candidate Chandulal Sahu from Mahasamund. Raman Singh's son Abhishek Singh won by a notable margin of 2.38 lakh votes. However, former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla was defeated from Bilaspur. AAP candidate Soni Sori failed to make electoral impact in Bastar by finishing a distant third. BJP had won 10 out of 11 seats both in 2004 and 2009 LS polls as well. TNN

2019

BJP wins

Modi wave swamps farm loan waiver, stalwarts bite the dust, May 24, 2019: The Times of India

Constituencies won by the main political parties in the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019 in MP
From: Modi wave swamps farm loan waiver, stalwarts bite the dust, May 24, 2019: The Times of India

Bhopal:

Madhya Pradesh may have voted out BJP in the state six months ago, but in the fight for Delhi, it has shown where its heart lies. Factors like farm loan waiver, which the Congress government was banking on, were swept aside in the Modi 2.0 tsunami. Led by former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, BJP launched an aggressive counter-narrative on the waiver scheme, telling farmers that they had been cheated. It hit home, and hit hard.

Congress realised the danger too late. By the time it started sending jeeploads of waiver documents to Chouhan’s home, two rounds of voting were over in MP. In the end, the 28-1scoreline said it all.

Rashtravaad (nationalism) overwhelmed jativaad (casteism), throwing all political equations haywire. It didn’t matter if the candidate was a Brahmin, Thakur or SC/ST. If it was a BJP candidate, only Modi mattered.

Modi’s appeal completely eclipsed not only Rahul Gandhi’s Nyay scheme but also negated the effects of the waiver of farm loans for 21 lakh farmers in a short span of 75 days by the Kamal Nath government. With very little time between elections, the Nath administration rolled out several schemes based on its ‘Vachan Patra’, but it was all overshadowed by the Modi factor.

In Bhopal, Pragya Singh Thakur survived the tumultuous aftermath of her controversial statements and Digvijaya Singh’s spirited campaign due to Modi.

If there was another factor at play, it was the R S S. Swayamsevaks had started the field work months in advance, especially in areas where they perceived BJP was on shaky ground. Over cups of tea at voters’ homes, R S S activists would talk of nationalism and strong leadership, not caste or community or economy. It clicked.

Congress got only one seat — Chhindwara, where chief minister Kamal Nath’s son Nakul somehow held on to a tenuous lead.

Congress stalwart Jyotiraditya Scindia’s defeat and Nakul’s victory were perhaps the two biggest indicators of how overwhelming the Modi wave was.

If exit polls predicted two seats for Congress, most people would say it would be Guna and Chhindwara.

Both seats withstood saffron tsunami — in 2014, Scindia won Guna by 2 lakh votes and Kamal Nath won Chhindwara by over 1 lakh. In 2019, Scindia lost by over 1.25 lakh votes, and Nakul scraped through by just 37,000 votes. To add salt to the wound, it was Scindia’s former poll manager, K P Yadav, who defeated him, with Scindia trailing in every round.

Former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweeted: “People of Madhya Pradesh had promised to rectify the mistake committed in the 2018 assembly polls in Lok Sabha polls. They have done just that. I am grateful to them, and congratulate the most popular leader in India, Narendra Modi.”

Kailash Vijayvargiya dug it in, tweeting: “In MP, only father and son (Kamal Nath and Nakul) have won. The rest of the Maharajas and courtiers have been routed. Congress lies crushed in the Modi wave.”