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Madhya Pradesh · Assembly Constituency 287

BurhanpurAssembly by-election result, 1999

Manjushree Shivkumarsingh (INC) won Burhanpur in the 1999 assembly by-election with 60.5% of the vote, beating A. Rub (Independent) by 26,295 votes.

Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1977 election. In 1972, seat no. 287 was Ratlam. Seats were renumbered for the 2003 election, after Chhattisgarh became a separate state. From 2003, there is no seat no. 287. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.

Winner

Manjushree Shivkumarsingh
INC 60.5%IND 29.1%2 others 10.4%
Votes
50,580
60.5% share
Winning margin
26,295
31.5% of votes
Candidates
4

A comfortable win — Manjushree Shivkumarsingh won by 31.5%.

Seat history

All Candidates

4 candidates
#CandidatePartyVotes · %
1
Manjushree Shivkumarsingh
50,58060.5%
2
A. Rub
IND
IND
24,28529.1%
3
Dilip Shroff
7,6299.1%
4
Dr. Sanjay Balkrishan Rokhale
IND
IND
1,0521.3%

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A comfortable margin, an essentially two-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
31.5%

winning margin, share of votes

How many parties were really in the race?

SEAT
Essentially two

INC and an independent took 90% of the votes.

Parties in the race 2.18

How did the vote split?

SEAT
60.5%won by INC
INC 60.5%IND 29.1%BJP 9.1%Others 1.3%

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Who has won Burhanpur, 1977–1998

  1. 1977SHIV KUMAR SINGH NAWAL SINGH (INC), margin 10.7%
  2. 1980MD. HAROON MD. AMIN. (INC(I)), margin 15.5%
  3. 1985FIROZA AHSAN ALI (INC), margin 9.0%
  4. 1990SHIV KUMAR SINGH NAVAL SINGH (JD), margin 32.7%
  5. 1993MAHANT SWAMI UMESH MUNI GURU SWAMI SANT RAM JI (IND), margin 0.4%
  6. 1998SHIVKUMAR SINGH NAWALSINGH (IND), margin 7.4%