2009 Indian general election in Chhattisgarh
The 2009 Indian general election polls in Chhattisgarh were held for eleven seats in the state. Ten seats were won by the Bharatiya Janata Party for the National Democratic Alliance and one by the Indian National Congress for the United Progressive Alliance in first-past-the-post elections. Voting in the state took place on 16 April. The election was marred by Naxalite violence in several of the state's constituencies. Out of approximately 15.4 million eligible voters 55.29 percent exercised their right to vote.
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| Turnout | 55.29% | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map of the state's eleven parliamentary constituencies | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Result
| No. | Loksabha Constituency | Turnout% | Elected candidate | Party | Margin | |
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| 1 | Sarguja (ST) | 61.62 | Murarilal Singh | BJP | 1,59,548 | |
| 2 | Raigarh (ST) | 65.31 | Vishnudeo Sai | BJP | 55,848 | |
| 3 | Janjgir-Champa (SC) | 48.57 | Kamla Devi Patle | BJP | 87,211 | |
| 4 | Korba | 58.41 | Charan Das Mahant | INC | 20,737 | |
| 5 | Bilaspur | 52.28 | Dilip Singh Judeo | BJP | 20,139 | |
| 6 | Rajnandgaon | 58.86 | Madhusudan Yadav | BJP | 1,19,074 | |
| 7 | Durg | 55.93 | Saroj Pandey | BJP | 9,954 | |
| 8 | Raipur | 46.99 | Ramesh Bais | BJP | 57,901 | |
| 9 | Mahasamund | 56.69 | Chandu Lal Sahu | BJP | 51,475 | |
| 10 | Bastar (ST) | 47.33 | Baliram Kashyap | BJP | 1,00,262 | |
| 11 | Kanker (ST) | 57.20 | Sohan Potai | BJP | 19,288 | |
References
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