DepalpurAssembly by-election result, 1997
Jagannath (Jagdish Patel) (INC) won Depalpur in the 1997 assembly by-election with 51.4% of the vote, beating Premnarayan Patel (BJP) by 7,970 votes.
Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1977 election. In 1972, seat no. 268 was Maheshwar. Seats were renumbered for the 2003 election, after Chhattisgarh became a separate state. From 2003, there is no seat no. 268. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.
Winner
A clear win with a 8.2% margin.
Seat history
All Candidates
7 candidates| # | Candidate | Party | Votes · %Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jagannath (Jagdish Patel) | 49,91851.4% | |
| 2 | Premnarayan Patel | 41,94843.2% | |
| 3 | Madan Singh IND | IND | 3,8253.9% |
| 4 | Pradeep Kumar Jain IND | IND | 6510.7% |
| 5 | Abhya Singh Parmar (Advocate) IND | IND | 3670.4% |
| 6 | Aziz Mohammad | 2660.3% | |
| 7 | Meharban Singh IND | IND | 1050.1% |
Results are complete; affidavit details aren't available for this seat yet.
A clear win, an essentially two-way race.
How safe is this seat?
winning margin, share of votes
How many parties were really in the race?
INC and BJP took 95% of the votes.
Parties in the race 2.21 Effective number of parties — counts each party by its share of the vote.
How did the vote split?
Ask the state
RBI 2024-25Figures for the state as a whole, not for this seat.