Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh — Lok Sabha Election Results

Compiled by EveryElectionResult.com's data team · Last updated 2026-08-30

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) was won by Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur (Bharatiya Janata Party) at the 2019 Lok Sabha general election, with a margin of 364,822 votes over Digvijaya Singh. This page covers every Lok Sabha general election in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, from 1957 to 2019.

Full Election History, 1957–2019

Election	Winner	Party	Votes	Vote Share	Runner-up	Margin
1957	Maimoona Sultan	Indian National Congress	81,134	41.2%	Hardayal Deogan (Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh)	25,184 (12.8 pts)
1962	Maimoona Sultan	Indian National Congress	83,204	36.6%	Om Parkash (Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh)	19,306 (8.5 pts)
1967	J.R. Joshi	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	138,698	48.8%	M. Sultan (Indian National Congress)	43,931 (15.5 pts)
1971	Shankar Dayal Sharma Khushilal Vaidya	Indian National Congress	158,805	50.9%	Bhanu Prakash Singh (Bharatiya Jana Sangh)	31,412 (10.1 pts)
1977	Arif Beg	Bharatiya Lok Dal	231,023	63.3%	Shankar Dayal Sharma (Indian National Congress)	108,526 (29.8 pts)
1980	Shankardayal Sharma	Congress (I)	168,059	43.5%	Arif Beg (Janata Party)	13,602 (3.5 pts)
1984	K. N. Pradhan	Indian National Congress	240,717	61.7%	Laxmi Narayan Sharma (Bharatiya Janata Party)	128,664 (33.0 pts)
1989	Sushil Chandra Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	281,169	46.4%	K.N.Prachan (Indian National Congress)	103,654 (17.1 pts)
1991	Sushil Chandra Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	308,946	53.6%	Mansoor Ali Khan Patodi (Indian National Congress)	102,208 (17.7 pts)
1996	Sushil Chandra	Bharatiya Janata Party	353,427	49.3%	Kailash Agnihotri (Kundal) (Indian National Congress)	150,894 (21.0 pts)
1998	Sushil Chandra Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	494,481	57.4%	Arif Baig (Indian National Congress)	193,932 (22.5 pts)
1999	Uma Bharti	Bharatiya Janata Party	537,905	55.1%	Suresh Pachori (Indian National Congress)	168,864 (17.3 pts)
2004	Kailash Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party	561,563	65.4%	Sajid Ali (Indian National Congress)	306,005 (35.6 pts)
2009	Kailash Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party	335,678	50.9%	Surendra Singh Thakur (Indian National Congress)	65,157 (9.9 pts)
2014	Alok Sanjar	Bharatiya Janata Party	714,178	63.2%	P C Sharma (Prakash Mangilal Sharma ) (Indian National Congress)	370,696 (32.8 pts)
2019	Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party	866,482	61.8%	Digvijaya Singh (Indian National Congress)	364,822 (26.0 pts)

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1957

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Maimoona Sultan	Indian National Congress	81,134	41.2%
Hardayal Deogan	Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh	55,950	28.4%
Mohini Devi	Communist Party of India	31,424	16.0%
Anoopbai	Independent	15,207	7.7%
Ram Charan Rai	Independent	12,983	6.6%
Gulab Chand	Independent	0	0.0%

1962

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Maimoona Sultan	Indian National Congress	83,204	36.6%
Om Parkash	Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh	63,898	28.1%
Mahipal	Jharkhand Party	38,211	16.8%
Mohini	Communist Party of India	34,010	15.0%
Shiv Charan	Independent	7,969	3.5%

1967

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
J.R. Joshi	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	138,698	48.8%
M. Sultan	Indian National Congress	94,767	33.4%
M.D. Shrivastava	Communist Party of India	35,274	12.4%
A.A. Khan	Independent	8,807	3.1%
H.B. Bhide	Independent	6,588	2.3%

1971

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Shankar Dayal Sharma Khushilal Vaidya	Indian National Congress	158,805	50.9%
Bhanu Prakash Singh	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	127,393	40.8%
Dada Bhoumick	Independent	20,342	6.5%
Arif Beg Karamat Beg	Samyukta Socialist Party	5,601	1.8%

1977

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Arif Beg	Bharatiya Lok Dal	231,023	63.3%
Shankar Dayal Sharma	Indian National Congress	122,497	33.6%
Babulal Sangode	Independent	11,163	3.1%

1980

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Shankardayal Sharma	Congress (I)	168,059	43.5%
Arif Beg	Janata Party	154,457	40.0%
Homi Daji	Communist Party of India	24,370	6.3%
Bhaiyalal Shobharam	Independent	8,331	2.2%
Washiuddin Khan	Independent	5,913	1.5%
Narayandas Khambhra	Independent	4,687	1.2%
Vidya Jain	Independent	3,842	1.0%
Babulal Sangode	Independent	3,588	0.9%
K.C. Gupta	Independent	3,391	0.9%
Ramkumar Khare	Independent	3,257	0.8%
Shafic Siddiqui	Independent	3,162	0.8%
Radheshyam Agrawal	Independent	2,995	0.8%

1984

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
K. N. Pradhan	Indian National Congress	240,717	61.7%
Laxmi Narayan Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party	112,053	28.7%
Goswami Gajanan Puri	Janata Party	5,705	1.5%
Gulkhan Alam	Independent	4,710	1.2%
Shiv Kumar Sahni	Independent	4,386	1.1%
Ganesh	Independent	4,287	1.1%
Govind Parvani	Independent	2,401	0.6%
Iqbal Ahmed	Independent	1,728	0.4%
Ayaz Mohd.	Independent	1,638	0.4%
Laxmi Devi	Independent	1,605	0.4%
Puran Singh Kushwaha	Independent	1,500	0.4%
Gulab Raut	Independent	1,264	0.3%
Narendra Dabkar	Independent	1,078	0.3%
Mukhtar Hussain	Independent	1,077	0.3%
Zohra Jamal	Independent	995	0.3%
Mahipal Ahirwar	Independent	883	0.2%
Sohanlal Sondhia	Independent	740	0.2%
Bramha Swaroop	Independent	647	0.2%
Hanuman Prasad Sharma	Independent	597	0.2%
Mehmood Raza	Independent	545	0.1%
Rampati Prasad Divwedi	Independent	533	0.1%
B.P. Shrivastava	Independent	470	0.1%
Brijbasilal Sharma	Independent	384	0.1%

1989

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sushil Chandra Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	281,169	46.4%
K.N.Prachan	Indian National Congress	177,515	29.3%
A.Rauf Khan	Bahujan Samaj Party	97,886	16.2%
P.L.Gautam	Independent	7,284	1.2%
U.H.Kamble	Independent	5,647	0.9%
Manohar Kumar	Independent	4,064	0.7%
Rajesh Kumar	DDP	3,334	0.6%
G.S.Raut	Independent	3,264	0.5%
Pooran Singh Kushwah	LKD (B)	2,763	0.5%
Ramchandran Batham	Independent	2,252	0.4%
Narayan Somkunwar	Independent	2,109	0.3%
Jagat Pathak	JNP (JP)	1,775	0.3%
Narayan Das Khambhra	Independent	1,607	0.3%
Ajay Mishra	Independent	1,546	0.3%
Jai Prakash	Independent	1,015	0.2%
Anwar Hashmi	Independent	1,002	0.2%
Ashok Kumar Jain	Independent	775	0.1%
Nemichand	Independent	762	0.1%
Om Parkash	Independent	742	0.1%
Musharraf Ali	Independent	693	0.1%
Rampati Prasad Dwivedi	Independent	661	0.1%
Ravi Anand	Independent	619	0.1%
Sharad Chandra	Independent	609	0.1%
Sumer Singh	Independent	576	0.1%
Shri Ram	Independent	550	0.1%
Lalji Malviya	Independent	541	0.1%
Amjad Ali	Independent	521	0.1%
Ramesh	Independent	517	0.1%
M.Ismail	Independent	486	0.1%
R.P.Shrivastava	Independent	466	0.1%
Ramesh Kumar Batham	Independent	459	0.1%
Mehmood Raza	Independent	433	0.1%
N.U.Khan	Independent	373	0.1%
Gauri Shakar Vishwakarma	Independent	364	0.1%
Mahilpal Ahiwar	Independent	331	0.1%
Akhtar Said Siddiqui	Indian Union Muslim League	274	0.0%
Kallu Pahalwan	Independent	216	0.0%
M.Aziz Khan	Independent	207	0.0%
K.Ramesh Chandra	Independent	197	0.0%

1991

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sushil Chandra Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	308,946	53.6%
Mansoor Ali Khan Patodi	Indian National Congress	206,738	35.9%
Swami Agniwesh	Janata Dal	26,716	4.6%
Jai Prakash	Independent	4,303	0.7%
Touqeer Ahmad Nizami	Bahujan Samaj Party	3,568	0.6%
R.P. Dwivedi	Independent	3,408	0.6%
G.S. Rawat	RPK	3,186	0.6%
Mahipal Singh	Janata Party	3,065	0.5%
Narayan Das	Independent	1,825	0.3%
Syed Nasiruddin	Independent	1,596	0.3%
Brij Lal Batra	Independent	1,417	0.2%
Mahipal Ahirwar	Independent	1,031	0.2%
Man Singh	Independent	1,030	0.2%
Javed Iqbal	Independent	939	0.2%
Acharya Pandit B.P. Tewari	Independent	810	0.1%
Mahamood Raza	Independent	643	0.1%
Amar Singh	Independent	624	0.1%
Ajay Mishra	Independent	580	0.1%
Rajesh Kumar	DDP	502	0.1%
Shailendra Saxena	Independent	479	0.1%
Jalaluddin	Independent	472	0.1%
Karunadas Kabirpanthi	Independent	454	0.1%
Acharya Ramnarayan Shastri	Independent	433	0.1%
Kartar Singh	Independent	427	0.1%
Pan Bai (W)	Independent	404	0.1%
Mohan Lal Patel	Independent	387	0.1%
Gita Verma (W)	Independent	344	0.1%
Radheshyam	Independent	326	0.1%
Kalloo Khan	Independent	263	0.0%
Babulal Malviya	Revolutionary Socialist Party	246	0.0%
Ramesh Saxena	Independent	232	0.0%
Rama Puri (W)	Independent	207	0.0%
Lalji Malviya	Independent	191	0.0%
Ramesh Kumar Bhatham	Independent	173	0.0%
N.P. Agarwal	Independent	152	0.0%
Ramkrishna Agarwal	Independent	115	0.0%

1996

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sushil Chandra	Bharatiya Janata Party	353,427	49.3%
Kailash Agnihotri (Kundal)	Indian National Congress	202,533	28.2%
Ramesh Saxena	Independent	52,865	7.4%
Lalit Shrivastava	AIIC(T)	46,146	6.4%
Rafiq Aslam Qureshi	Independent	8,605	1.2%
Vijay Kumar Patil	RPI	7,374	1.0%
Rajendra Prasad Dubey	Independent	5,898	0.8%
Keshav Rao	Independent	4,590	0.6%
Narender Kumar	BMRD	2,796	0.4%
Mansaram Pal	Janata Party	2,527	0.4%
Ramsaroop Sharma	Independent	2,352	0.3%
Dharampal Makoria	Independent	2,067	0.3%
P.K.Jain	Shiv Sena	1,982	0.3%
Rampati Prasad Dwedi	Independent	1,874	0.3%
Narain Das	Independent	1,858	0.3%
Ajay Agarwal	Independent	1,731	0.2%
Ghisi Lal	Independent	1,651	0.2%
Govind Parwani	Independent	1,553	0.2%
Lalji Malviya	Independent	1,348	0.2%
Ramesh Kumar Khre	Independent	1,134	0.2%
Sarla	Independent	1,129	0.2%
Ravishankar	Independent	1,075	0.1%
Charanjit Singh Gulati	Independent	768	0.1%
Virender Pandey	Independent	710	0.1%
Bhagvat Prasad	Independent	704	0.1%
Suresh Rathod	Independent	624	0.1%
Prakash	Independent	620	0.1%
Shekh Sultan	Independent	572	0.1%
Sayed Iqbal Israt Qureshi	Independent	560	0.1%
Sahabsingh Gujjar	Independent	546	0.1%
Shriram	Independent	537	0.1%
Kamlesh Khare	Independent	528	0.1%
Harihar Prasad Upadhyaya	Independent	503	0.1%
Ramkrishan	Independent	467	0.1%
Rajinderkumar Garg	Independent	411	0.1%
Mehfooz	Independent	391	0.1%
Batanlal	Independent	389	0.1%
Rakesh Arya	Independent	385	0.1%
Brijesh	SDP(MP)	383	0.1%
Sayed Aftab Ali	Independent	345	0.0%
Valbhadra	Independent	333	0.0%
A.D.Sharma	Independent	315	0.0%
Rakeshkumar Manhar	Independent	233	0.0%
Sumantara Vinay	Independent	233	0.0%
Mohd Ismail Shekh	Independent	223	0.0%

1998

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sushil Chandra Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	494,481	57.4%
Arif Baig	Indian National Congress	300,549	34.9%
Manoj Shrivastava	Bahujan Samaj Party	34,526	4.0%
Shailendra Kumar "Shaily"	Communist Party of India	15,423	1.8%
N.S. Vakode	RPI	2,962	0.3%
Roop Khatik	Independent	2,308	0.3%
Bhim Raj	Independent	2,230	0.3%
Sy. Abdul Qayum	Independent	1,804	0.2%
Kameshwar Singh Patel	AD	1,551	0.2%
Rajendra Jain	SAP	1,276	0.1%
Revti Singh	GGP	1,122	0.1%
Er. K.K. Argal (Khare)	SVSP	1,023	0.1%
Sheikha Qadir	Independent	901	0.1%
Yogesh Kumar .T. Pancholi	AJBP	398	0.0%
Durga Prasad Diwvedi	BAJP	363	0.0%

1999

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Uma Bharti	Bharatiya Janata Party	537,905	55.1%
Suresh Pachori	Indian National Congress	369,041	37.8%
Shrawan Gourav	Independent	19,710	2.0%
Phool Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party	18,617	1.9%
Aslam Sher Khan	Nationalist Congress Party	6,044	0.6%
M. W. Siddiqui	Janata Dal (Secular)	5,392	0.6%
Narain Das Khambra	Independent	3,691	0.4%
Shfiq Miyan	Independent	3,480	0.4%
Parashnath Gajbhiya	Independent	2,886	0.3%
Nizam Uddin	Samajwadi Party	1,994	0.2%
Ajay Singh Yadav	Independent	1,759	0.2%
Jalaluddin Alias 301 Bidi Wale	Independent	1,714	0.2%
Radha Bai Panchal	Rashtriya Janata Dal	1,495	0.2%
Suresh Gotekar	RPI	1,429	0.1%
Madhu Sharma	AJBP	1,336	0.1%

2004

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Kailash Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party	561,563	65.4%
Sajid Ali	Indian National Congress	255,558	29.8%
G. S. Chawala	Bahujan Samaj Party	16,712	1.9%
Brij Basi Lal Sharma	Independent	7,965	0.9%
Archana Shrivastava	SVSP	4,317	0.5%
Pramod Gupta	Samajwadi Party	3,965	0.5%
Altaf Ahmed	Independent	2,454	0.3%
Revti Singh Maravi	GGP	2,275	0.3%
Upendra Tiwari	RSGP	2,043	0.2%
Anil Kumar Bharti	ABHM	1,611	0.2%

2009

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Kailash Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party	335,678	50.9%
Surendra Singh Thakur	Indian National Congress	270,521	41.1%
Er. Ashok Narayan Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party	18,649	2.8%
Mhod. Munawar Khan Kausar	Samajwadi Party	8,615	1.3%
Brajendra Chaturvedi Urf Gappu Chaturvedi	Independent	3,570	0.5%
D. C. Gujarkar	Independent	3,070	0.5%
Ashok Pawar	PRSP	2,861	0.4%
Dr. Mahesh Yadav 'Aman Gandhi'	Independent	1,852	0.3%
Shiv Narayan Singh Bagware	Independent	1,635	0.2%
Mukesh Sen	Independent	1,594	0.2%
Rajesh Kumar Yadav	Independent	1,536	0.2%
Darshan Singh Rathore	Independent	1,278	0.2%
Amar Singh	Independent	1,214	0.2%
Kapil Dubey	Independent	1,092	0.2%
Mehdi Sir	Independent	838	0.1%
Anil Singh	Independent	814	0.1%
Shahnawaz	Independent	684	0.1%
Ram Sahay Yatri (Shrivastava) Urf Rashtravadi Yatri	Independent	619	0.1%
Ahirwar Lakhanlal Purvi	RPI(A)	597	0.1%
Ramdas Ghosle	RPI(D)	558	0.1%
Radheshyam Kulaste	GMS	552	0.1%
Sanjeev Singhal	SVSP	532	0.1%
Karan Kumar Karosia Urf Karan Jeeja	GGP	481	0.1%

2014

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Alok Sanjar	Bharatiya Janata Party	714,178	63.2%
P C Sharma (Prakash Mangilal Sharma )	Indian National Congress	343,482	30.4%
Rachna Dhingra	Aam Aadmi Party	21,298	1.9%
Sunil Borse	Bahujan Samaj Party	10,152	0.9%
Shailendra Kumar Shaili	Communist Party of India	7,643	0.7%
Sheeba Malik	Samajwadi Party	5,742	0.5%
Master Sajid Siddiqui	SOCIALDEMOCRATICPARTYOFINDIA	5,557	0.5%
None Of The Above	Independent	5,181	0.5%
Abdul Tahir (Bablu - Advocate)	Independent	1,878	0.2%
Colonel Kesari Singh	Independent	1,840	0.2%
Vijay Kumar	CPI(ML)RS	1,494	0.1%
Rajesh Keer	BMP	1,348	0.1%
Satish Babu Naidu	Independent	832	0.1%
Rajaram Mehar	PSS	796	0.1%
Mukesh Kumar Bansal	SVP	763	0.1%
Brajendra Gappu Chaturvedi	Independent	684	0.1%
Gundesh Khambra	Independent	681	0.1%
J C Barai	SUCI(C)	628	0.1%
Md. Ateek	Praja Socialist Party	625	0.1%
Badshah Khan	NDP	622	0.1%
M C Mittal Jai Gurudeo Tatdhari	Independent	620	0.1%
Gautam Shinde	AD	614	0.1%
Mahant Gopal Das Baba Shahab	Independent	570	0.1%
Mehboob Khan	Independent	569	0.1%
Ashok Pawar	Samyukta Socialist Party	551	0.0%
Balbhadra Mishra	BJYP	523	0.0%
Daniel John	Independent	465	0.0%
Prabhawati Shakya Khot	Independent	425	0.0%
Peeyush Soni	Independent	421	0.0%

2019

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party	866,482	61.8%
Digvijaya Singh	Indian National Congress	501,660	35.8%
Madho Singh Ahirwar	Bahujan Samaj Party	11,277	0.8%
Dr. Veena Ghanekar Rtd. Ias	Samajwadi Party	3,264	0.2%
Ramsushil Sharma E/X/ C.R.P.F.	SUP	2,819	0.2%
Lata Suryawanshi	SVP	2,688	0.2%
Rajesh Keer	BMP	1,439	0.1%
Deshmukh Riyazuddin Ghayasuddin	Independent	1,251	0.1%
Raj Kumar Shakya (Kori)	JAP	883	0.1%
Gautam Nagdavane	API	856	0.1%
Devendra Prakash Mishra	Independent	854	0.1%
Sunil Kumar Dodeja	Independent	852	0.1%
Md. Iqbal Khan	SIP	844	0.1%
Kamlesh Dangi Thakur	HND	686	0.0%
Ca Pramod Bhojwani	SSRD	572	0.0%
Bhaurao Vithoba Fulzele	BPP	538	0.0%
Abdul Tahir Ansari (Bablu) Advocate Patrkar And Samajsewak	SBI	527	0.0%
Bal Ram Singh Tomar	BSCP	497	0.0%
Mukesh Kumar Gupta	Independent	485	0.0%
Piyush Jain	RRP	484	0.0%
J.C. Barai	SUCI(C)	479	0.0%
Prabha Bharti	JLP	473	0.0%
Praveen Singh Thakur (Praveena Thakur)	Independent	456	0.0%
Shrimati Hemlata Pathak	SP(MP)	418	0.0%
Mahendra Kumar	Independent	365	0.0%
Moh. Ateek	Independent	331	0.0%
Kamlesh Namdev	Independent	286	0.0%
Priyanka Khare	Independent	278	0.0%
Mahendra-Katiyar	Independent	265	0.0%
Alok Kumar	Independent	215	0.0%

Margin Over Time

Winning margin (percentage points) at each election, coloured by the winning party's broad bloc (Congress / BJP / Left / other).

Trend

Bhopal has been contested at 16 Lok Sabha general elections on record since 1957. Parties that have won this seat over that span: Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Bharatiya Lok Dal, Congress (I), Bharatiya Janata Party.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Bhopal in the 2019 Lok Sabha election?

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur (Bharatiya Janata Party) won Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, in 2019 with 866,482 votes (61.8%), a margin of 364,822 votes over Digvijaya Singh.

Which parties have won Bhopal since 1957?

Since 1957, Bhopal has been won by: Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Bharatiya Janata Party, Bharatiya Lok Dal, Congress (I), Indian National Congress.

What was the closest result in Bhopal?

The closest result on record for Bhopal was 1980, when Congress (I) beat Janata Party by just 13,602 votes (3.5 percentage points).