Madhya Pradesh election results: Hits and Flops

Kamal Nath | 76 yrs Seat: Chhindwara | PARTY: Congress Defeated Vivek Bunty Sahu (BJP) by 36,594 votes Assembly poll contests are a rarity in Nath’s political CV, but the nine-time Lok Sabha MP had jumped into the fray with a vengeance this time as Congress sniffed blood in Madhya Pradesh. Shivraj Singh Chouhan | 64 Budhni| BJP Defeated Vikram Mastal (Congress)by 1,04,974 votes BJP may not have anointed him its CM face in these polls, but Chouhan went all guns blazing into this fight.His challenger was Vikram Mastal,who plays Hanuman on TV. Narendra Singh Tomar | 66 Dimani | BJP Defeated Balveer Singh Dandotiya (BSP) by 24,461 votes One of the Union ministers thrust into the Assembly poll arena by BJP as it sought to counter the antiincumbency factor in MP, Tomar joined the fight as a possible CM face. Kailash Vijayvargiya | 67 Indore-1 | BJP Defeated Sanjay Shukla (Congress) by 57,939 votes A reluctant contestant in these polls and another of BJP’s central stalwarts in the fray, Vijayvargiya was seen as having a tough fight on his hands against sitting Congress MLA Sanjay Shukla. Prahlad Singh Patel | 63 Narsingpur | BJP Defeated Lakhan Singh Patel (Cong) by 31,310 votes The junior minister in the Modi cabinet was fielded in this seat in place of his brother and sitting MLA Jalam Patel with the ‘possible-CM’ branding attached to him as well. Riti Pathak | 46 S | BJPidhi Defeated Gyan Singh (Congress) by 35,418 votes The Sidhi MP was fielded here after BJP denied sitting MLA Kedarnath Shukla the ticket in the wake of a row over an alleged BJP worker urinating on the face of a tribal person.