Indore-1 Assembly Election Result 2023 Live Updates: Among all the five states that went to polls in the election season of November 2023, Madhya Pradesh (MP) is witnessing arguably the most interesting contest. Let's check the results.
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MP is the biggest state which sees the bipolar political battle between the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. Therefore, these results of MP Assembly election 2023 can also be considered as the litmus test for both the parties ahead of the Lok Sabha elections that are just six months away.
Shukla had won the Indore-1 seat in 2018 with 114,555 votes against BJP's Sudarshan Gupta with a margin of 8,163 votes. On the other hand, Kailash's son, Akash Vijayvargiya had won the Indore-3 seat in the 2018 polls.
It was only back in 2013, that Sudarshan won the seat by a margin of 54,176 votes (28.48%).
BJP won this seat in the 2008 Assembly elections with a margin of 8,183 votes (6.86%), registering 51.18% of the total votes polled.
In 2003 too, BJP's Antarsingh Arya had won this seat with 50% vote-share.
Kailash's Candidature From Indore-1
In early October this year, Kailash Vijayvargiya said he had "no wish" to contest in the upcoming assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, but will be filing his candidature from Indore-1 seat as decided by the party's leadership. Speaking to NDTV, he talked about his rallies in the seat and that on result day, "BJP will win with 150-160 seats in MP," he had stated.
Congress MLA from Indore-1, Sanjay Shukla, criticised Kaislash Vijayvargiya and alleged that he had sacrificed his son's career to further his own, PTI reported.
Notably, Kailash has won as many as six consecutive Assembly polls from different seats in the Indore district between 1990 and 2013.
Kailash had not contested the 2018 Assembly elections. It is the biggest state which sees the bipolar political battle between the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. Therefore, the results of MP Assembly election 2023 can also be considered as the litmus test for both the parties ahead of the Lok Sabha elections that are just six months away.
MP went to polls on November 17 and recorded a voter turnout of 77 per cent, its highest ever. The 230-member state Assembly of Madhya Pradesh had a total of 2533 candidates fighting for the mandate of more than 5.6 crore voters.
Live Updates of Indore-1 Election Results 2023
Indore-1 has the constituency number 204 in the Madhya Pradesh state Assembly, and falls under Indore district.
BJP has won in this seat of Madhya Pradesh. The Quint has updated the result of Indore-1 based on the live counting of votes.
As stated earlier, when in the 2018 MP Assembly elections, the Indore-1 seat had been won by Sanjay Shukla of the Congress, the BJP candidate Sudarshan Gupta had come in second place.
When it comes to the MP Assembly election results of 2013, the Indore-1 constituency had been won by Arya Sudarshan Gupta of the BJP. The Independent candidate Kamlesh Khandelwal was the runner-up.
Indore-1 falls under Indore parliamentary constituency, which is currently held by the BJP.
Indore-1 Assembly Election 2023
According to the Election Commission, around 77.15%of the total of 5,59,83139 voters exercised their franchise across 64,626 polling booths. This is the highest-ever voter turnout recorded in Madhya Pradesh.
Of the total of 2,87,82,261 male voters in the state, 78.21% turned up to vote in their respective polling booths.
While 76.03% of the total of 2,71,99,586 female voters casted their votes.
Madhya Pradesh also had a total of 1,292 registered voters of the third gender.
Indore-1 seat saw a voter turnout of 72.28% in the 2023 Assembly elections. Male voting percentage was at 73.69%, while 70.82% women turned up to vote.
2023 Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election
Known as the 'heart' of the country, Madhya Pradesh was at the centre of some high-voltage political churning in the run-up to the 2023 Assembly elections.
The BJP and its longest-serving chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is facing an anti-incumbency of 18 years. This is the reason why the party's central leadership decided not to declare a chief ministerial candidate in this elections and fielded three union cabinet ministers, four members of Parliament, and a national general secretary in Madhya Pradesh.
The BJP has tried to cancel out the anti-incumbency to some extent by handing out direct cash transfer of Rs 1,250 to over 32 lakh women under Laadli Behna Scheme.
The BJP in MP appeared to have been afflicted by infighting, especially after the induction of Jyotiraditya Scindia. On the other hand, the Congress, tried to gain sympathy for the defection of Scindia that fell Congress' 15-month-old Kamal Nath government in 2020.
Unlike BJP, Congress wasn't shy of declaring a CM face – that of Kamal Nath. Congress also tried to capitalise with its promise of caste census to woo the OBCs, which comprise about 50% of Madhya Pradesh's total population.
Madhya Pradesh has been under BJP's rule since 2003 when the saffron party led by Uma Bharti stormed into power, ending the 10-year tenure of Congress' Digvijaya Singh government.
In the 2018 state assembly elections, the Congress won 114 seats, while the BJP won 109 seats. The Congress managed to touch the majority mark of 116 with the help of smaller parties and independents and form the government.
However, their government came to an unceremonious end in 2020 when Congress' Jyotiraditya Scindia switched sides to BJP, taking along over 20 MLAs with him. After which, BJP returned to power in MP.
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