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Raipur (ST)

Name: Raipur (ST)
Address: IN

Lok Sabha General Election 1996

← Lok Sabha General Election 1996 ·

1,104,342

Electors

555,339

Votes polled

50.29%

Turnout

50,739

Margin

Winner

Ramesh Vaish

Male

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Alliance: —
Votes: 252,990
Vote share: 45.56%
Margin: 50,739

Rank	Candidate	Party	Total	Share
1	Ramesh Vaish Won Male	BJP	252,990	45.56%
2	Dhanender Sahu Male	INC	202,251	36.42%
3	Vishnu Baghel Male	BSP	45,654	8.22%
4	Pursottam Kaushik Male	JD	7,460	1.34%
5	Vyas Narain Sahu Male	IND	4,292	0.77%
6	Rafik A. Bhai Male	IND	3,195	0.58%
7	Akash Sharma Male	SHS	3,075	0.55%
8	Rudra Dev Male	IND	2,435	0.44%
9	Prem Chand Jain Male	IND	2,420	0.44%
10	Mohd. Arif Meman Male	IND	2,409	0.43%
11	Ajay Shukla Male	IND	2,045	0.37%
12	Mahesh Prakash Male	IND	1,939	0.35%
13	Santosh Alias Santa Bhai Male	IND	1,686	0.30%
14	Surender Kumar Dvedi Male	IND	1,527	0.27%
15	Prakash Dhanraj Golchha Male	IND	1,378	0.25%
16	Narotam Sharma Male	CPI(ML)(L)	1,235	0.22%
17	Deepak Motwani Male	RPI	1,166	0.21%
18	Balla Male	IND	1,148	0.21%
19	Ramesh Chander Shukla Male	IND	1,131	0.20%
20	Brijendra Kumar Bajpai Male	IND	969	0.17%
21	Din Dayal Varma Male	IND	928	0.17%
22	Salig Ram Varma Male	IND	863	0.16%
23	Sultan Singh Satnam Male	IND	784	0.14%
24	Rohit Vani Male	IND	668	0.12%
25	Sarad Chandr Yadav Male	IND	659	0.12%
26	Suneel Yadav Male	IND	647	0.12%
27	S.R. Barman Male	IND	642	0.12%
28	Monesh Sahu Male	IND	612	0.11%
29	Keyur Bhushan Male	IND	606	0.11%
30	Gauri Shankar Dube Male	IND	595	0.11%
31	Kunwar H.P.Singh Male	ICS	575	0.10%
32	Komal Chand Azad Male	IND	503	0.09%
33	Ambubakar Male	IND	502	0.09%
34	Khagshwar Dewangan Male	IND	497	0.09%
35	Moti Patangwala Male	IND	481	0.09%
36	Ashok Sharma Male	IND	470	0.08%
37	Awadharam Sahu Male	IND	465	0.08%
38	Shyam Lal Chaurasya Male	IND	457	0.08%
39	Ram Nihal Male	IND	454	0.08%
40	Shobhnath Mishra Male	LD	454	0.08%
41	Rajesh Upadhyaya Male	IND	445	0.08%
42	Kashi Nath Male	ABHM	400	0.07%
43	Arun Kumar Male	IND	308	0.06%
44	Charan Lal Sahu Male	IND	286	0.05%
45	Mahesh Pande Male	IND	275	0.05%
46	Arvind Singh Male	IND	268	0.05%
47	Girja Shankar Sharma Male	IND	259	0.05%
48	Anand Mohan Pandey Male	IND	258	0.05%
49	Kamtha Prasad Male	IND	206	0.04%
50	Rajesh Bharti Male	IND	188	0.03%
51	Vimal Urf Gudda Male	IND	179	0.03%

Party Wise Vote Share

Overall vote % (Pie)

Voter Participation by Gender

EVM voters — male vs female

Gender-wise turnout is not available for this constituency.

Raipur (ST) Constituency Results by Year

Year	Winner	Vote share	Runner-up	Vote share
1999	Ramesh Bais Male BJP	53.67%	Jugal Kishore Sahu Male INC	41.56%
1998	Ramesh Bais Male BJP	49.42%	Vidyacharan Shukl Male INC	37.46%
1996	Ramesh Vaish Male BJP	45.56%	Dhanender Sahu Male INC	36.42%
1991	Vidyacharan Shukla Male INC	45.09%	Ramesh Bais Male BJP	44.86%
1989	Ramesh Bais Male BJP	53.90%	Kayer Bhushan Male INC	37.13%
1984	Kaiyur Bhushan Male INC	58.32%	Ramesh Bais Male BJP	31.13%
1980	Kayur Bhushan Mathura Prasad Male INC(I)	46.57%	Pawan Diwan Sukhramdhar Male IND	24.60%
1977	Purushottam Lal Kaushik Male BLD	60.83%	Vidyacharan Shukla Male INC	33.53%
1971	Vidyacharan Shukla Male INC	59.49%	Baburao Patel Male BJS	22.98%
1967	L. Gupta Male INC	37.45%	J. B. Kriplani Male JAC	28.64%
1962	Keshar Kumari Devi Female INC	39.28%	Prayag Singh Male JS	32.84%
1957	Raja Birendra Bahadur Singh (s. T. ) INC	30.38%	Rani Keshar Kumari Devi (s. T. ) INC	29.73%