Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections were held in two phases and the results for the 90 seats have been declared by the Election Commission of India. The BJP has won a clear majority by bagging 54 seats, proving the exit polls wrong while the Congress was reduced to just 35 seats. One seat went to the Gondvana Gantantra Party as its candidate Tuleshwar Hira Singh Markam won from the Pali-Tanakhar seat. The state saw a tightly contested polls where the ruling Congress and the opposition BJP fought tooth and nail for power. While Congress CM Bhupesh Baghel was seeking a second straight term, the BJP campaigned extensively to make a return to powr after warming the opposition benches for five years. Congress contested the polls on welfare work done by the Baghel government while the BJP raised issues of unemployment, liquor ban and corruption to woo the voters. 


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The state recorded a voter turnout of 68.15 per cent during the second phase. There were a total of 1,63,14,479 voters including 81,41,624 men, 81,72,171 women and 684 of third gender. 


Constituency              Congress Candidates          BJP Candidates
Bharatpur-Sonhat       Gulab Singh Kamro              Renuka Singh Saruta (Won)
Manendragarh           Ramesh Singh Vakil              Shyam Bihari Jaiswal (Won)
Baikunthpur               Ambica Singh Deo                Bhaiyalal Rajwade  (Won)
Premnagar                 Khel Sai Singh                      Bhulan Singh Maravi   (Won)
Bhatgaon                   Paras Nath Rajwade              Laxmi Rajwade (Won)
Pratappur                  Rajkumari Marawi                Shakuntala Singh Porthe (Won)
Ramanujganj            Dr Ajay Kumar Tirkey          Ramvichar Netam (Won)
Samri                        Vijay Paikara                       Udeshwari Paikra (Won)
Lundra                      Dr Pritam Ram                      Prabodh Minz (Won)
Ambikapur               TS Singh Deo                        Rajesh Agarwal (Won)
Sitapur                      Amarjeet Bhagat                     Ram Kumar Toppo (Won)
Jashpur                      Vinay Kumar Bhagat              Raimuni Bhagat (Won)
Kunkuri                     UD Minj                                 Vishnu Deo Sai (Won)
Pathalgaon                Rampukar Singh Thakur        Gomati Sai (Won)
Lailunga                   Vidyavati Sidar  (Won)                     Suniti Rathia
Raigarh                     Prakash Shakrajeet Naik        OP Choudhary (Won)
Sarangarh                 Uttari Jangde (Won)                          Shivkumari Chouhan
Kharsia                     Umesh Patel  (Won)                          Mahesh Sahu
Dharamjaigarh         Laljeet Singh Rathia  (Won)               Harishchandra Rathia
Rampur                   Phool Singh Rathiya (Won)               Nankiram Kanwar
Korba                       Jaisingh Agrawal                     Lakhanlal Dewangan (Won)
Katghora                  Purushottam Kanwar              Premchandra Patel (Won)   
Pali-Tanakhar          Duleshwari Sidar                    Ramdayal Uikey                           Tuleshwar Hira Singh Markram (Won)
Marwahi                  Dr KK Dhruv                         Pranav Kumar Marpachi (Won)
Kota                         Atal Srivastav (Won)                       Prabal Pratap Singh Judev 
Lormi                      Thaneshwar Sahu                       Arun Sao (Won)
Mungeli                  Sanjit Banerjee                        Punnulal Mohale (Won)
Takhatpur               Rashmi Ashish Singh          Dharamjeet Singh (Won)
Bilha                       Siyaram Kaushik              Dharamlal Kaushik (Won)
Bilaspur                   Shailesh Pandey              Amar Agarwal (Won)
Beltara                     Vijay Kesarwani              Sushant Shukla (Won)
Masturi                     Dilip Lahariya (Won)                 Dr Krishna Murti Bandhi
Akaltara                    Raghvendra Singh (Won)          Saurabh Singh
Janjgir-Champa          Byas Kashyap (Won)                 Narayan Chandel 
Sakti                          Charan Das Mahant (Won)         Khilawan Sahu 
Chandrapur                Ram Kumar Yadav (Won)             Sanyogita Singh Judev
Jaijaipur                     Baleshwar Sahu (Won)                    Krishnakant Chandra
Pamgarh                     Sheshraj Harbans  (Won)                 Santosh Kumar Lahare
Saraipali                     Chaturi Nand (Won)                        Sarla Kosaria
Basna                         Devendra Bahadur Singh       Sampat Agarwal (Won)
Khallari                     Dwarikadhish Yadav (Won)               Alka Chandrakar
Mahasamund            Dr Rashmi Chandrakar         Yogeshwar Raju Sinha (Won)
Bilaigarh                   Kavita Pran Lahare (Won)         Dineshlal Jangade 
Kasdol                       Sandeep Sahu (Won)                  Dhaniram Dhiwar
Baloda Bazar             Shailesh Trivedi              Tankram Verma (Won)
Bhatapara                   Inder Kumar Sao (Won)              Shivratan Sharma 
Dharsiwa                   Chhaya Verma                  Anuj Sharma (Won)
Raipur City Gramin    Pankaj Sharma           Motilal Sahu (Won)
Raipur City West        Vikas Upadhyay             Rajesh Munat (Won)
Raipur City North      Kuldeep Singh Juneja     Purandar Mishra (Won)
Raipur City South      Mahant Ram Sundar Das    Brijmohan Agrawal (Won)
Arang                         Dr Shivkumar Dahariya     Guru Khushwant Saheb (Won)
Abhanpur                   Dhanendra Sahu                Indrakumar Sahu (Won)
Rajim                          Amitesh Shukla                Rohit Sahu (Won)
Bindranawagarh        Janak Lal Dhruv(Won)               Govardhan Ram Manjhi
Sihawa                      Ambika Markam (Won)                Shrawan Markam
Kurud Tarini             Chandrakar                                      Ajay Chandrakar (Won)
Dhamtari                   Onkar Sahu (Won)                   Ranjana Dipendra Sahu
Sanjari Balod            Sangeeta Sinha (Won)               Rakesh Kumar Yadav
Dondi Lohara           Anila Bhendia (Won)                Devlal Thakur
Gunderdehi               Kunwer Singh Nishad (Won)          Virendra Sahu
Patan                         Bhupesh Baghel (Won)               Vijay Baghel
Durg Gramin           Tamradhwaj Sahu               Lalit Chandrakar (Won)
Durg City                 Arun Vora                     Gajendra Yadav (Won)
Bhilai Nagar            Devendra Yadav (Won)                Prem Prakash Pandey
Vaishali Nagar         Mukesh Chandrakar             Rikesh Sen (Won)
Ahiwara                   Nirmal Kosare                 Domanlal Korsewada (Won)
Saja                         Ravindra Choubey           Ishwar Sahu (Won)
Bemetara                 Ashish Kumar Chhabra     Dipesh Sahu (Won)
Nawagarh                Guru Rudra Kumar           Dayaldas Baghel (Won)
Pandariya                Neelkanth Chandravanshi      Bhavna Bohra (Won)
Kawardha                Mohammad Akbar            Vijay Sharma (Won)
Khairagarh              Yashoda Verma (Won)                Vikrant Singh
Dongargarh            Harshita Swami Baghel (Won)    Vinod Khandekar
Rajnandgaon          Girish Devangan               Dr Raman Singh (Won)
Dongargaon           Daleshwar Sahu (Won)                Bharat Lal Verma
Khujji                     Bhola Ram Sahu (Won)               Geeta Ghasi Sahu
Mohala-Manpur     Indrashah Mandavi (Won)            Sanjeev Shah
Antagarh                 Roop Singh Potai              Vikram Usendi (Won)
Bhanupratappur     Savitri Mandavi (Won)              Gautam Uikey
Kanker                   Shankar Dhurve                Asharam Netam (Won)
Keshkal                  Sant Ram Netam                Neelkanth Tekam (Won)
Kondagaon           Mohan Markam                  Lata Usendi (Won)
Narayanpur           Chandan Kashyap               Kedar Kashyap (Won)
Bastar                   Lakheshwar Baghel (Won)             Maniram Kashyap
Jagdalpur             Jitin Jaiswal                          Kiran Singh Deo (Won)
Chitrakot              Deepak Kumar Baij                  Vinayak Goyal (Won)
Dantewara            Chhavindra Mahendra Karma        Chaitram Atami (Won)
Bijapur                 Vikram Mandavi (Won)                  Mahesh Gagda
Konta                   Kawasi Lakhma (Won)                 Soyam Muka


The Congress had won the 2018 assembly polls ending the BJP's ten years of rule.