Cong has highest, lowest winning margins in Chhattisgarh
Raipur, Oct 7 (UNI) The Congress has to its credit the largest victory margin in the 2003 Chhattisgarh Assembly polls, which were the first since the state's creation in November 2000, but it also has the dubious distinction of having in its ranks the candidate who won by the slimmest number of votes.
State Election Office sources told UNI here that Congress nominee and the then Chief Minister Ajit Jogi had vanquished his nearest rival by 54,150 votes at Marwahi.
Interestingly, Congress candidate Uday Mudaliar scraped through with a wafer-thin margin of mere 40 votes at Rajnandgaon.
For the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which was then the main Opposition in the state and now the ruling party, the maximum winning margin was attained by Rajesh Munat, who bagged 37,999 ballots more than his nearest rival in Raipur (Rural). The BJP's Vijay Nath Singh scraped through by 42 votes in Lundra.
In the matter of margins, Kamalbhan Singh (BJP) was his party's second-ranker, as his margin at Ambikapur was 37,222. For the Congress, Nand Kumar Patel won by 32,768 votes at Kharsiya. At Abhanpur, Dhanendra Sahu -- who is the Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee President -- won by only 227 votes.
Some
other
'major' and
'minor'
winners:
Party
Candidate
Seat
Margin
BJP
S
Kashyap
Jagdalpur
30,289
BJP
S
P
Singh
Surajpur
27,511
BJP
B
Agrawal
Raipur
(City)
25,974
BJP
A
Thakur
Kanker
25,811
BJP
Baiduram
Keshalpur
24,058
BJP
H
Yadav
Durg
22,573
Congress
R
Uike
Tanakhar
20,313
Congress
S
Nayak
Sariya
18,293
Congress
R
Choubey
Saja
17,742
Congress
K
Lakma
Konta
17,398
Congress
D
Singh
Lormi
15,666
BJP
N
Kanwar
Rampur
380
Congress
R
Singh
Pathalgaon
317
Congress
G
S
Bajpeyi
Balauda
Bazar
309
BJP
B
Diwan
Sipat
299
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