Madhya Pradesh Election Result 2023 Live: There are a total of 230 assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh. BJP has crossed majority mark of 116 to form a government in the state.
The Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly's five-year tenure is all set to end on January 6, 2024. The Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections 2023 were held on November 17 in a single-phased election. The Madhya Pradesh Election Result 2023 will be out today, December 3, 2023.
After the 2018 Assembly Election in Madhya Pradesh, the Indian National Congress (INC) formed the state government and Kamal Nath became the Chief Minister. However, in March 2020, 22 MLAs of the INC, including Jyotiraditya Scinidia, resigned from the assembly and deflected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Kamal Nath resigned as Madhya Pradesh's chief minister and BJP's Shivraj Singh Chouhan became the new CM of MP.
There are a total of 230 assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh. In 2018, Congress won the assembly elections with 114 seats, and the BJP came second with 109 seats. BJP's current strength in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly is 127. In the 2023 Assembly Election, 2,533 candidates competed for 230 assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh.
As per a report in PTI, the number of electorates in Madhya Pradesh is 5,60,50,925, of which 2,88,25,607 are males, 2,72,33,945 are females, and 1,373 are of the third gender. The voter turnout in the Madhya Pradesh 2023 elections was 77.15 percent.
This year, ECI also permitted people above 80 years of age and physically challenged to cast their votes from their homes using ballot papers.
Here are the live updates from the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election 2023
- BJP retained power in Madhya Pradesh, winning 132 seats, and is leading in 32, as per the latest official figures.
- The BJP today swept the MP assembly polls as it's set to win over 160 seats while the Congress has been reduced to 64 seats
- The Election Commission of India said that BJP candidate Manju Rajendra Dadu has won from the Nepanagar seat by 44,805 votes.
- Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan addressed the party workers as the party leads towards a landslide victory in the state
- The Congress is down to 66 seats while the BJP is looking towards a record tally with a lead on 162 seats.
- The latest data from the Election Commission gives the BJP 161 seats in Madhya Pradesh
- The BJP is leading on 160 seats across the state with Congress being confined to under 70 seats as per the latest trends.
- Incumbent CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, “Modi ji MP ke mann mein hain aur Modi ji ke mann mein MP hai. He held public rallies here and appealed to the people and that touched people’s hearts. These trends are a result of that. Double-engine government properly implemented the schemes of the Central Government and the schemes that were formed here also touched people’s hearts. Madhya Pradesh became a family…I had said earlier too that the BJP would get a comfortable and grand majority as people’s love for us was visible everywhere.”
- Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan with party leaders Narendra Singh Tomar and Jyotiraditya Scindia watch election results as the counting of votes continues
- Jaivardhan Singh, son of former CM Digvijaya Singh, is leading by over 3,800 Votes against BJP candidate Hirendra Singh Bunti
- Atif Arif Aqueel of Congress is leading from Bhopal Uttar by 3989 votes against BJP's Alok Sharma.
- BJP candidate Ashok Ishwardas Rohani is leading by over 12,300 votes against Congress candidate Abhishek Chintu Chouksey from the Jabalpur Cantt.
- BJP's Vishwamitra Pathak is leading in Sihawal, which has been a traditional seat of current MLA Kamleshwar Patel's family
- "BJP will win around 125-150 seats. Not only in Madhya Pradesh but the BJP will also form government in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh as well," says BJP leader Narottam Mishra.
- Digvijaya Singh's son Jaivardhan Singh is trailing by 847 votes from Raghogarh against BJP candidate Heerendra Singh Bunty
- Bhagwandas Sabnani of BJP leading from Bhopal Dakshin-Paschim by over 2100 votes against PC Sharma of Congress
- Arif Masood of Congress leading by over 5800 votes against BJP's Dhruv Narayan Singh and BSP's Udham Singh
- BJP leader and MP Kailash Vijayvargiya is leading from the Indore-1 seat while the Congress candidate Sanjay Shukla is trailing by 4268 votes, as per the ECI data
- Bharati Rajendra of Congress is leading against Narottam Mishra of BJP from Datia by over 1100 votes
- Union Minister and BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia arrives at the residence of incumbent Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, in Bhopal as BJP moves towards a landslide win.
- Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is leading by over 13 thousand votes from Budhni. Congress candidate Vikram Mastal is trailing from the seat.
- Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath posts tweet after BJP takes lead in Madhya Pradesh
- BJP's Tulsi Silawat, a loyalist of Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, leads in Sanwer
- Former Chief Minister Kamal Nath is leading from Chhindwara by 1944 votes against BJP candidate Vivek Bunty Sahu.
- BJP's Narottam Mishra leads in Datia, which he has represented since 2008
- Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar is trailing from Dimani seat in Madhya Pradesh. Congress candidate Ravindra Singh Tomar is currently leading from the seat.
- BJP Candidate Kamakhya Pratap Singh is leading from Maharajpur in Madhya Pradesh against Congress candidate Niraj Vinod Dixit. BJP is leading on 126 seats in initial trends.
- Senior BJP leader and party's national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya leads in the Indore-1 constituency. - Total seats - 230 BJP - 114 (lead) Congress - 90 (lead)
- Congress takes the lead in Madhya Pradesh. Former CM Kamal Nath is confident of victory.
- Preparations are underway at the counting center in Bhopal
- The Congress party has issued helpline numbers for its workers in case of any irregularities during the counting process of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls. An official statement released by the Congress said, "Under the guidance of Kamal Nath ji on December 2, 2023, a war room has been set up in PCC Bhopal. Any kind of questions and for the redressal of complaints, a team of legal experts will be available in the presence of Kamal Nath ji."
- Both the Congress and the BJP have expressed confidence that they will win in the assembly elections. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan claimed the BJP would retain power with a "huge majority", and Congress chief Kamal Nath said he had "complete confidence" in the people of the state.
- The counting of votes in Madhya Pradesh will begin at 8 am amid tight security. Officials said the unlocking of the EVMs will begin at 6 am itself.
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