Ratlam Lok Sabha Constituency Results 2024 Live: BJP's Anita Nagar Bags 7 Lakh Votes; Leaves Congress' Kantilal Bhuria In Fray

Updated at 02:00 Pm

Vote margin between BJP's Anita Nagar and Congress' Kantilal Bhuria increases to 1.9 Lakh votes. In the state of Madhya Pradesh, out of 29 seats 22 seats have a vote margin of over 1.5 Lakh votes in the favour of the saffron party.

Updated at 12:45 Pm

Congress MP Kantilal Bhuria is down another 50k votes as the margin between both contestants grows to 1,72,243 votes. Historically, Bhuria has lost this seat in 2019 as well as 2014 General Elections.

Updated at 11:30 Am

Recent developments show that BJP's Anita Nagar Singh is leading the electoral battle in Ratlam Lok Sabha Constituency by a margin of 1,27,538 votes against Congress stalwart Kantilal Bhuria.

Updated at 10:20 AM

BJP's Anita Nagar Singh is leading the electoral race in the Ratlam Lok Sabha Constituency by a margin of 87,938 votes.

Updated at 09:20 AM

Early trends and postal ballots counting shows BJP's Anita Nagar Singh is leading against Congress' Ex MP Kantilal Bhuria

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Anita Nagar Singh from BJP and Ex MP Kantilal Bhuria from Congress are the 2 key candidates from the Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency. The Ratlam constituency voted 72.94% on May 13, 2024. The live results for the Ratlam constituency will start at 8 AM on June 4th, we will be updating the same.

Congress fields same candidate thrice

Interestingly, Congress has been putting its faith in the same candidate, Kantilal Bhuriya for three consecutive terms. Kantilal Bhuriya won the general elections in 2009 and after that he was defeated by BJP candidates twice in 2014 and 2019. 

Caste Equations

Among 29 parliamentary constituencies, Ratlam is a ST (Scheules Tribe) dominated seat with a literacy rate of 41.36%. As per 2011 Caste Census, Ratlam consists of 73.4% of ST voters, whereas only 4.5% of them are SC. Also, 82.2% of the voters are rural and 17.8% of them are urban.

From the archives: Lok Sabha Elections 2019

In the Lok Sabha elections of 2019, there was a tight fight between BJP and Congress in which BJP candidate Guman Singh Damor won the seat with 6.94 lakh votes. However, the runner-up, Kantilal Bhuria from Congress was defeated by 89.8k votes, who secured 6.05 lakh votes. Approximately, 13.9 lakh voters participated in the elections of 2019.

Lok Sabha Elections 2014
In 2014 also, BJP candidate Dileepsingh Bhuriawon the constituency against Congress’s Kantilal Bhuria. Even if the two candidates belonged to the same community, Dileepsingh Bhuria garnered 5.45 lakh votes whereas, Kantilal Bhuria got 4.37 votes, leaving a margin of 1.07 lakh.

Lok Sabha Elections 2009
However, in 2009, Congress held the parliamentary seat after Kantilal Bhuriya garnered 3.08 lakh votes whereas,  BJP’s Dileepsingh Bhuria could manage 2.51 lakh votes. 

What do opinion polls say?

According to India TV-CNX opinion poll, BJP is likely to clinch all 29 parliamentary constituencies of Madhya Pradesh this election. BJP has been winning the Ratlam constituency for the last two terms and it is expected to retain the constituency for the third term as well.

Total voters
The total registered voters in 2024 sums-up to 13,97,455, including 9,29,035 men and 9,21,549 women. The results of Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency are to be declared on June 4.