In the 1999 Indian general election for Madhya Pradesh polls were held for 40 seats in the state. The result was a major victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which won 29 seats. The remaining 11 seats were won by Indian National Congress (INC).
Election schedule The polling schedule for the 1999 General Elections was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner on 11 July 1999. Poll eventPhaseIIIIIIVNotification date17 August 199921 August 199930 August 1999Last date for filing nomination24 August 199928 August 19996 September 1999Scrutiny of nomination25 August 199930 August 19997 September 1999Last Date for withdrawal of nomination27 August 19991 September 19999 September 1999Date of poll11 September 199918 September 199925 September 1999Date of counting of votes/Result6 October 1999No. of constituencies141412
Parties and alliances
PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedBharatiya Janata PartyUma Bharti40
PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedIndian National CongressMadhavrao Scindia 40
Others Party flag Symbol Leader Seats contested Bahujan Samaj Party Mayawati 27 Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav 20
Result
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Parties and coalitions ! colspan="3" |Seats ! colspan="3" |Popular vote |- !Contested !Won !+/− !Votes !% !±pp |- | bgcolor="" | |Bharatiya Janata Party | 40 | 29 | 1 | 1,18,11,850 | 46.58% | 0.85% |- | bgcolor="" | | Indian National Congress | 40 | 11 | 1 | 1,11,35,161 | 43.91% | 4.51% |- | bgcolor="" | |Bahujan Samaj Party | 27 | 0
| 13,26,558 |5.23% | 3.47% |- | bgcolor="red" | |Samajwadi Party | 20 | 0
| 3,46,848 | 1.37% | 0.72%
| bgcolor="" | |Gondwana Ganatantra Party | 15 | 0
| 90,931 | 0.36% | 0.3% |- | bgcolor="" | |Independents | 116 | 0
| 2,73,286 | 1.08% | 0.24% |- | colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9" | |- style="font-weight:bold;" | align="left" colspan="2"| Total |40 | colspan=2 bgcolor="#E9E9E9" | | 2,53,56,859 | colspan=2 bgcolor="#E9E9E9" |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Invalid votes |3,83,794 |1.49 | colspan="4" rowspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Votes cast / turnout |2,57,46,824 |54.88 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Registered voters | 4,69,15,473 | 100.00
Constituency-wise results Keys:
Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin % # Name Poll % Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes % 1 Morena (SC) 39.74% Ashok Argal 2,10,790 42.44 Gopal Das 1,48,564 29.9162,22612.53 2 Bhind 51.12% Ram Lakhan Singh 2,70,766 40.94 Satyadev Katare 2,17,192 32.8453,5748.10 3 Gwalior 48.18% Jaibhan Pawaiya 2,54,486 41.27 Chandra Mohan Nagori 1,71,370 27.7983,11613.48 4 Guna 53.81% Madhavrao Scindia 4,43,965 65.34 Rao Deshraj Yadav 2,29,537 33.782,14,42831.56 5 Sagar (SC) 48.46% Virendra Khatik 2,93,357 54.64 Madhavi Chaudhary 2,32,884 43.3860,47311.26 6 Khajuraho 54.12% Satyavrat Chaturvedi 3,35,861 45.77 Akhand Pratap Yadav 2,54,724 34.7181,13711.06 7 Damoh 46.10% Ramkrishna Kusmaria 2,46,909 43.78 Tilak Singh Lodhi 2,33,190 41.3513,7192.43 8 Satna 52.59% Ramanand Singh 2,17,932 35.27 Rajendra Singh 2,14,527 34.723,4050.55 9 Rewa 54.64% Sundar Lal Tiwari 2,75,115 37.19 Ramalakhan Singh Patel 2,10,964 28.5264,1518.67 10 Sidhi (ST) 48.70% Chandra Pratap Singh 2,64,981 43.66 Tilakraj Singh 2,60,126 42.864,8550.80 11 Shahdol (ST) 49.76% Dalpat Paraste 2,62,229 44.92 Ajit Jogi 2,42,328 41.5119,9013.41 12 Surguja (ST) 54.31% Khelsai Singh 2,97,778 51.31 Larang Sai 2,36,352 40.7361,42610.58 13 Raigarh (ST) 59.39% Vishnu Deo Sai 2,76,244 48.46 Pushpa Devi Singh 2,70,471 47.455,7731.01 14 Janjgir 54.08% Charan Das Mahant 2,78,931 41.98 Banshilal Mahto 2,64,698 39.8414,2332.14 15 Bilaspur (SC) 48.27% Punnulal Mohle 2,74,860 52.27 Rameshwar Kosariya 1,99,527 37.9575,33314.32 16 Sarangarh (SC) 63.05% P. R. Khute 2,81,769 41.75 Paras Ram Bhardwaj 2,30,010 34.0851,7597.67 17 Raipur 56.86% Ramesh Bais 3,54,736 53.67 Jugal Kishore Sahu 2,74,676 41.5680,06012.11 18 Mahasamund 64.59% Shyama Charan Shukla 3,40,635 49.94 Chandra Shekhar Sahu 3,25,200 47.6815,4352.26 19 Kanker (ST) 56.54% Sohan Potai 3,18,040 55.40 Chhabila Arvind Netam 2,29,849 40.0488,19115.36 20 Bastar (ST) 39.35% Baliram Kashyap 1,55,421 43.58 Mahendra Karma 1,34,684 37.7720,7375.81 21 Durg 58.06% Tara Chand Sahu 3,89,777 51.24 Pradeep Choubey 3,45,259 45.3944,5185.85 22 Rajnandgaon 59.37% Dr. Raman 3,04,611 51.46 Motilal Vora 2,77,896 46.9426,7154.52 23 Balaghat 63.71% Prahladsingh Patel 2,51,308 43.47 Vishweshwer Bhagat 2,30,630 39.9020,6783.57 24 Mandla (ST) 49.35% Faggan Singh Kulaste 2,32,042 48.11 Devendra Tekam 2,25,470 46.756,5721.36 25 Jabalpur 43.00% Jaishree Banerjee 3,00,648 56.88 Chandra Mohan 1,90,894 36.121,09,75420.76 26 Seoni 53.58% Ram Naresh Tripathi 2,82,891 48.23 Vimla Verma 2,66,957 45.5115,9342.72 27 Chhindwara 60.31% Kamal Nath 3,99,904 63.98 Santosh Jain 2,10,976 33.751,88,92830.23 28 Betul 53.51% Vijay Kumar Khandelwal 2,72,512 51.03 Gufran Bhai 2,08,040 38.9564,47212.08 29 Hoshangabad 59.58% Sundar Lal Patwa 3,53,760 52.30 Rajkumar Patel 3,09,313 45.7344,4476.57 30 Bhopal 61.88% Uma Bharti 5,37,905 55.09 Suresh Pachori 3,69,041 37.791,68,86417.30 31 Vidisha 55.96% Shivraj Singh 3,60,421 55.65 Jasvant Singh 2,78,024 42.9382,39712.72 32 Rajgarh 60.41% Laxman Singh 3,54,234 53.34 Nitish Bhardwaj 2,88,541 43.4465,6939.90 33 Shajapur (SC) 63.70% Thavarchand Gehlot 3,87,607 51.44 Radhakishan Malviya 3,52,941 46.8434,6664.60 34 Khandwa 56.85% Nandkumarsingh Chouhan 3,64,161 58.67 Tanvant Singh Keer 2,38,058 38.351,26,10320.32 35 Khargone 60.42% Tarachand Patel 3,54,133 51.63 Balkrishna Bauji Patidar 3,15,987 46.0738,1465.56 36 Dhar (ST) 60.39% Gajendra Singh Rajukhedi 3,55,482 52.08 Harsh Chouhan 3,21,377 47.0834,1055.00 37 Indore 56.46% Sumitra Mahajan 4,74,167 57.42 Mahesh Joshi 3,42,852 41.521,31,31515.90 38 Ujjain (SC) 60.82% Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya 3,60,103 54.22 Tulasiram Silawat 2,92,065 43.9868,03810.24 39 Jhabua (ST) 55.77% Kantilal Bhuriya 3,71,842 61.93 Dilipsingh Bhuriya 2,22,465 37.051,49,37724.88 40 Mandsaur 60.65% Lakshaminarayan Pandey 3,95,928 53.12 Rajendra Singh Gautam 3,40,443 45.6755,4857.45
Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Madhya Pradesh #NameConstituencyDesignationDepartmentFromToParty1Sundar Lal PatwaHoshangabadCabinet MinisterRural Development13 Oct199930 Sep2000Chemicals and Fertilizers30 Sep20007 Nov2000Mines7 Nov20001 Sep2001Agriculture6 March200127 May20012Satyanarayan JatiyaUjjain (SC)Cabinet MinisterUrban Employment and Poverty Alleviation13 Oct199922 Nov1999Labour22 Nov19991 Sep2001Social Justice and Empowerment1 Sep200122 May20043Uma BhartiBhopalMoS (I/C)Tourism13 Oct19992 Feb2000Cabinet MinisterYouth Affairs and Sports7 Nov200026 Aug2002Coal26 Aug200229 Jan2003Mines26 Aug200229 Jan20034Vikram VermaRajya Sabha(Madhya Pradesh)Cabinet MinisterStatistics and Programme Implementation18 Nov20011 July2002Youth Affairs and Sports26 Aug200222 May20045O. RajagopalRajya Sabha(Madhya Pradesh)MoSLaw, Justice and Company Affairs13 Oct199924 July2000Parliamentary Affairs22 Nov199922 May2004Railways31 Aug20001 July2002Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation1 July200229 Jan2003Defence29 Jan200322 May20046Ramesh BaisRaipurMoSChemicals and Fertilizers13 Oct199930 Sep2000Communications13 Oct199922 Dec2001Information and Broadcasting30 Sep200029 Jan2003MoS (I/C)Mines29 Jan20039 Jan2004Environment and Forests9 Jan200422 May20047Sumitra MahajanIndoreMoSHuman Resource Development13 Oct19991 July2002Communications and Information Technology1 July200224 May2003Petroleum and Natural Gas24 May200322 May20048Faggan Singh KulasteMandla (ST)MoSParliamentary Affairs13 Oct199922 Nov1999Tribal Affairs22 Nov199922 May20049Raman SinghRajnandgaonMoSCommerce and Industry13 Oct199929 Jan200310Prahlad Singh PatelBalaghatCoal24 May200322 May200411Dilip Singh JudeoRajya Sabha(Chhattisgarh)Environment and Forests29 Jan200317 Nov2003
References
External links Election Commission of India