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.
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.
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