Indore, Madhya Pradesh — Lok Sabha Election Results

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

Indore (Madhya Pradesh) was won by Shankar Lalwani (Bharatiya Janata Party) at the 2019 Lok Sabha general election, with a margin of 547,754 votes over Pankaj Sanghvi. This page covers every Lok Sabha general election in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, from 1957 to 2019.

Full Election History, 1957–2019

Election	Winner	Party	Votes	Vote Share	Runner-up	Margin
1957	Khadiwala Kanhaiyalal	Indian National Congress	102,589	62.6%	Kishorilal (Bharatiya Jana Sangh)	60,579 (37.0 pts)
1962	Homi Daji	Independent	95,682	41.7%	Ramsinghbhai Karansingh (Indian National Congress)	6,293 (2.7 pts)
1967	P.C. Sethi	Indian National Congress	134,468	43.6%	H. Daji (Independent)	34,118 (11.1 pts)
1971	Prakash Chandra Sethi	Indian National Congress	136,534	45.0%	Satya Bhan Singhal (Bharatiya Jana Sangh)	45,698 (15.0 pts)
1977	Kalyan Jain	Bharatiya Lok Dal	174,278	49.5%	Bhatt Nandkishore (Indian National Congress)	36,636 (10.4 pts)
1980	Prakash Chand Sethi	Congress (I)	210,994	51.8%	Sheel Kumar Nigam (Janata Party)	64,733 (15.9 pts)
1984	Prakash Chand Sethi	Indian National Congress	272,122	56.8%	Rajendra Nilkanth Dharkar (Bharatiya Janata Party)	90,826 (19.0 pts)
1989	Sumitra Mahajan	Bharatiya Janata Party	319,123	49.9%	Prakashchand Sethi (Indian National Congress)	111,614 (17.5 pts)
1991	Sumitra Mahajan (W)	Bharatiya Janata Party	303,269	54.9%	Lalit Jain (Indian National Congress)	80,594 (14.6 pts)
1996	Sau. Sumitra Mahajan	Bharatiya Janata Party	338,327	50.9%	Madhukar Verma (Indian National Congress)	104,433 (15.7 pts)
1998	Sumitra Mahajan	Bharatiya Janata Party	440,047	52.0%	Pankaj Sanghvi (Indian National Congress)	49,852 (5.9 pts)
1999	Sumitra Mahajan	Bharatiya Janata Party	474,167	57.4%	Mahesh Joshi (Indian National Congress)	131,315 (15.9 pts)
2004	Sumitra Mahajan	Bharatiya Janata Party	508,107	59.5%	Rameshwar Patel (Indian National Congress)	193,936 (22.7 pts)
2009	Sumitra Mahajan (Tai)	Bharatiya Janata Party	388,662	48.8%	Satynarayan Patel (Indian National Congress)	11,480 (1.4 pts)
2014	Sumitra Mahajan (Tai)	Bharatiya Janata Party	854,972	64.9%	Satyanarayan Patel (Indian National Congress)	466,901 (35.5 pts)
2019	Shankar Lalwani	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,068,569	65.8%	Pankaj Sanghvi (Indian National Congress)	547,754 (33.7 pts)

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1957

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Khadiwala Kanhaiyalal	Indian National Congress	102,589	62.6%
Kishorilal	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	42,010	25.6%
Shivshankar	Independent	19,245	11.7%

1962

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Homi Daji	Independent	95,682	41.7%
Ramsinghbhai Karansingh	Indian National Congress	89,389	38.9%
Triloknath Ramjeevan Bhargav	Jharkhand Party	19,923	8.7%
Baleshwardayal	Socialist Party	17,538	7.6%
Narayansingh Albela	Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh	7,014	3.1%

1967

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
P.C. Sethi	Indian National Congress	134,468	43.6%
H. Daji	Independent	100,350	32.5%
S.C. Singhal	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	67,551	21.9%
D. Awasthi	Praja Socialist Party	6,053	2.0%

1971

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Prakash Chandra Sethi	Indian National Congress	136,534	45.0%
Satya Bhan Singhal	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	90,836	29.9%
Homi F. Daji	Communist Party of India	64,430	21.2%
Mohammad Hussain Khokar	Independent	4,116	1.4%
Ram Babu Sharma	Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh	3,457	1.1%
Phundilal Jat	Independent	2,363	0.8%
Kanhaiyalal Khadiwala	Congress (O)	1,959	0.6%

1977

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Kalyan Jain	Bharatiya Lok Dal	174,278	49.5%
Bhatt Nandkishore	Indian National Congress	137,642	39.1%
Homi F. Daji	Communist Party of India	29,725	8.5%
Bashir Patel Haji Kasam Patel	Independent	3,281	0.9%
Metharam Tolani	Independent	2,795	0.8%
Subhash Chandra Babulal Jain	Independent	1,558	0.4%
Ghanshyam Gangaram	Independent	1,403	0.4%
Rajindra Kumar Mittal	Independent	1,072	0.3%

1980

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Prakash Chand Sethi	Congress (I)	210,994	51.8%
Sheel Kumar Nigam	Janata Party	146,261	35.9%
Kalyan Jain	Janata Party (Secular)	26,177	6.4%
Ashifali Imam Ali	Independent	5,669	1.4%
Nandkishore Banshidhar	Independent	3,194	0.8%
Rishi Kumar Shukla	Independent	2,902	0.7%
Niyamat Ullah Khan	Independent	1,996	0.5%
Subhash Chand Ramvilas	Independent	1,459	0.4%
Rajendra Mittal	Independent	1,408	0.3%
Mohd. Rafi	Independent	1,373	0.3%
Metharam Tolani Shivputra	Independent	1,204	0.3%
Dattatry Ramchand Karmalkar	Independent	1,031	0.3%
Surendra Kumar Paul	Independent	1,005	0.2%
Bhawar Singh Nanuram	Independent	928	0.2%
Fundilal Mulchand	Independent	747	0.2%
Mastram Arjun	Independent	707	0.2%

1984

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Prakash Chand Sethi	Indian National Congress	272,122	56.8%
Rajendra Nilkanth Dharkar	Bharatiya Janata Party	181,296	37.9%
Hazi Moosa Khan	LKD	5,069	1.1%
Shikhar Chand Sharma	Independent	4,031	0.8%
Dilip Mehta	Independent	3,690	0.8%
Narain Singh Jadon	Independent	1,744	0.4%
Ashok Patodi	Independent	1,118	0.2%
Ramesh Gendalal	Independent	1,036	0.2%
Rana Ram Prasad Yadav	Independent	1,030	0.2%
Kailash Sharma Parashar	Independent	829	0.2%
Ajit Kumar Jain (Patwa)	Independent	824	0.2%
Fundi Lal Jat	Independent	669	0.1%
Jagdish Totaram	Independent	624	0.1%
Kalyan Jain	Independent	555	0.1%
Inder Sen	Independent	554	0.1%
Ratan Singh	Independent	539	0.1%
Subhas Gehlot	Independent	495	0.1%
Nasir Mohamad	Independent	493	0.1%
Radhey Shyam Patidar	Independent	367	0.1%
Manoharlal Bapoolal	Independent	358	0.1%
Radhe Shyam Shivbax Garg	Independent	333	0.1%
Mastram Arjun	Independent	330	0.1%
Metha Ram Tolani Shivputra	Independent	288	0.1%
Faiz Mohamad Ansari	Independent	264	0.1%
Birla Ghansham	Independent	168	0.0%

1989

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sumitra Mahajan	Bharatiya Janata Party	319,123	49.9%
Prakashchand Sethi	Indian National Congress	207,509	32.5%
Bala Baig Karamat Beig	Independent	88,753	13.9%
Gurmasta Omparkash Bairagi	Independent	4,664	0.7%
Shikhar Chand Sharma	DDP	2,760	0.4%
Ajit Kumar Jain 'Patwa'	Independent	2,403	0.4%
Prakash	Independent	1,417	0.2%
Suresh Yadav	Bahujan Samaj Party	1,071	0.2%
Choudhary Nibaran Nath	Independent	966	0.2%
Bhiludas Balragi	Independent	903	0.1%
Kailashchandra Laxminarayan Vyas	Independent	853	0.1%
Kanhiyalal Sharma	Independent	786	0.1%
Tarachand Sahu	Independent	770	0.1%
Fundilal Jat	Independent	768	0.1%
Surendra Kumar Pal	Independent	610	0.1%
Mumtaz B.Patel	Independent	530	0.1%
Bhuwan Singh	Independent	520	0.1%
Vinod Baser	Independent	465	0.1%
Sudarshan Naiyar	Independent	462	0.1%
Prakash Mahawar Koli	Independent	425	0.1%
Haidar Khan	Independent	396	0.1%
Mahant Narayandas	Independent	360	0.1%
Subhas Gahlot	Independent	347	0.1%
Laik Isruddin	Independent	341	0.1%
Agarwal Ghanshyamdas	Independent	265	0.0%
Ghanshyam	Independent	251	0.0%
Rana Ram Prasad Puran Yadav	Independent	242	0.0%
Thakur Bajrang Singh Rathore	Independent	236	0.0%
Patel Rathan Singh	Independent	232	0.0%
Parmanand Tolani	Independent	230	0.0%
Hari Krishan	Independent	211	0.0%
Dhansukhlal	Independent	202	0.0%

1991

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sumitra Mahajan (W)	Bharatiya Janata Party	303,269	54.9%
Lalit Jain	Indian National Congress	222,675	40.3%
Kalyan Jain	Janata Dal	4,721	0.9%
Ajit Kumar Jain Patwa	Independent	2,816	0.5%
Arjundas Motwani	Independent	2,767	0.5%
Gopal Das	Independent	1,942	0.4%
Tapan Bhattacharya	Janata Party	1,586	0.3%
Pradip Shriram	Independent	1,198	0.2%
Rajendra Mittal	Independent	1,173	0.2%
Parmanand Tolani	Independent	1,172	0.2%
Millind Janwade	Independent	1,014	0.2%
Shikhar Chand	DDP	830	0.2%
Mohd. Rafi Ruhela	Independent	753	0.1%
Raja Ramprasad	Independent	547	0.1%
Ashraf Khan	BKUS	467	0.1%
Dilip Saroshe	Independent	428	0.1%
Madan Mohan Vyas	Independent	417	0.1%
Preetam Singh	Independent	411	0.1%
Brajlal Verma	Independent	407	0.1%
Haidar Khan	Independent	351	0.1%
Haji Nassir Ali	Independent	323	0.1%
Birla Ghanshyam	Independent	310	0.1%
Ramesh Goyal Patrakar	Independent	276	0.0%
Ashok Parwal	Independent	258	0.0%
Ashok Sanghavi	Independent	247	0.0%
Rajmal	Independent	234	0.0%
Suresh Pol	Independent	231	0.0%
Bhiludas Bairagi	Independent	229	0.0%
Girish Kumar	Independent	209	0.0%
Subhash Gehalod	Independent	195	0.0%
Manoj Kumar Sharma	Independent	190	0.0%
Manoj Jain	Independent	175	0.0%
Abdul Rauf	Independent	173	0.0%
Ravindra Amalhan	Independent	141	0.0%
Bajrang Singh Rathore	Independent	133	0.0%
Ashok Rai Gandhi	Independent	128	0.0%
Omprakash Gupta	Independent	91	0.0%
Kailash Labriya	Independent	81	0.0%

1996

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sau. Sumitra Mahajan	Bharatiya Janata Party	338,327	50.9%
Madhukar Verma	Indian National Congress	233,894	35.2%
Anil Lalbhadur	AIIC(T)	54,460	8.2%
Rana Ram Prasad Yadav	Independent	3,081	0.5%
Ajit Kumar Jain	Independent	2,478	0.4%
Permanand Metha Ram Tolani	Independent	2,372	0.4%
Phundilal	Independent	2,209	0.3%
Milan Janwade	Independent	2,165	0.3%
Chandershekher	Independent	2,089	0.3%
Bhayalal	Independent	1,684	0.3%
H.C.Srivastava	Independent	1,496	0.2%
Manak Chand Silawat	Independent	1,179	0.2%
Subhash	Independent	1,095	0.2%
Subhash Chander	Independent	843	0.1%
Madanlal	Independent	823	0.1%
Pradeep Shri Ram	Independent	805	0.1%
Radheshyam	Independent	779	0.1%
Surinder Kumar	Independent	750	0.1%
Smt Sadhana Parmar	Independent	660	0.1%
Gajraj	Independent	655	0.1%
Rajinder Ochani	Independent	594	0.1%
Ramesh Chand	Independent	588	0.1%
Advocate Brajlal Verma	Independent	563	0.1%
Vipin Saxena	Independent	534	0.1%
Abdul Shabir	Independent	527	0.1%
Harash Joshi	Independent	498	0.1%
Manoharlal Arora	Independent	495	0.1%
Ishwar Dutt	Independent	494	0.1%
Ajij Baba Chisti	Independent	460	0.1%
Dhanna Lal	Independent	451	0.1%
Kishan Lal	Independent	444	0.1%
Jaffar Shekh	Independent	408	0.1%
Mukesh Laxman	Independent	385	0.1%
Parmanand Moolchand	Independent	379	0.1%
Raju	Independent	318	0.0%
Samadhan	Independent	313	0.0%
Narinder Kumar Alija	Independent	287	0.0%
Mukesh Ambaram	Independent	276	0.0%
Devinder Ranka	Independent	263	0.0%
Sunil	Independent	262	0.0%
Room Singh Yadav	Independent	251	0.0%
Om Prakash Singh	Independent	244	0.0%
Suresh	Independent	220	0.0%
Dharam Dass Shah	Independent	213	0.0%
Kailash	Independent	210	0.0%
Tajinder Singh Narang	Independent	206	0.0%
Gaja Nand	Independent	203	0.0%
Anokhilal Angdele	Independent	203	0.0%
Daya Shankar	Independent	196	0.0%
Prakash	Independent	193	0.0%
Nand Lal	Independent	185	0.0%
Prakash Mahawar	Independent	183	0.0%
Promod Kumar Jain	Independent	171	0.0%
Prem Kumar	Independent	150	0.0%
Gopi Chand	Independent	150	0.0%
Shyam Sambharia	Independent	134	0.0%
Narinder Singh Dhakad (Nandiji)	Independent	133	0.0%
Shalinder Mishra	Independent	125	0.0%
Gopal Singh Rathore	Independent	120	0.0%
Raj Kumar	Independent	107	0.0%
Laxmi Narian	Independent	96	0.0%
Mohan	Independent	83	0.0%

1998

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sumitra Mahajan	Bharatiya Janata Party	440,047	52.0%
Pankaj Sanghvi	Indian National Congress	390,195	46.1%
Kalyan Jain	Samajwadi Party	4,536	0.5%
Akhtar Baig Karamat Baig	Bahujan Samaj Party	3,549	0.4%
Milind Janvade	RPI	2,015	0.2%
Parmanand Metharam Tolani	Independent	1,075	0.1%
Ajitkumar Jain "Patwa"	Independent	898	0.1%
Jagdish Bhai Patidar	Shiv Sena	783	0.1%
Manohar Singh	Independent	771	0.1%
Chandarsingh Ramratansingh Raghuvanshi	Independent	530	0.1%
Yogi Dr. Dushyant	AJBP	427	0.1%
Ravindra Bhagwandas	Independent	361	0.0%
Rana Ramprasad Puran Yadav	ABJS	338	0.0%
Madanlal Alias Virendrakumar (Kumayu)	Independent	284	0.0%
Rajkumar	Independent	268	0.0%
Rajesh Babulal	Independent	214	0.0%

1999

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sumitra Mahajan	Bharatiya Janata Party	474,167	57.4%
Mahesh Joshi	Indian National Congress	342,852	41.5%
Suresh Yadav	Bahujan Samaj Party	3,262	0.4%
Shaikh Masaruddin	Rashtriya Janata Dal	984	0.1%
Vijaykumar Jain ( Patwa )	Independent	965	0.1%
Tejendra Singh Bhatiya	Independent	907	0.1%
Dilipkumar Khandelwal	Independent	759	0.1%
Manohar Lal Arora	ABHM	530	0.1%
Uma Agrawal	Independent	469	0.1%
Raj Kumar Sunhere	Independent	297	0.0%
Lalchand Madanlal	Independent	228	0.0%
Madanlal Kumanyu	Independent	217	0.0%
Ghanshyam Chandel	Independent	157	0.0%

2004

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sumitra Mahajan	Bharatiya Janata Party	508,107	59.5%
Rameshwar Patel	Indian National Congress	314,171	36.8%
Kailashchander Kanwarlal Sahu	Bahujan Samaj Party	10,331	1.2%
Raju Soni	Independent	5,635	0.7%
Ajit Kumar Jain ( Patwa)	Independent	4,453	0.5%
Rajendra Yadav ( Advocate)	Samajwadi Party	4,142	0.5%
Parmanand Tolani	Independent	2,211	0.3%
Nandkishor Agrawal	Independent	2,075	0.2%
Moolchand Rathore	Independent	1,933	0.2%
Ghanshyam Chandel	Independent	1,445	0.2%

2009

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sumitra Mahajan (Tai)	Bharatiya Janata Party	388,662	48.8%
Satynarayan Patel	Indian National Congress	377,182	47.3%
Rahim Khan	Bahujan Samaj Party	7,226	0.9%
Dr. Anita Yadav	Samajwadi Party	3,381	0.4%
S. R. Mandloi	Independent	3,360	0.4%
Sanjay Singh Bhadoriya (Pappu)	Rashtriya Janata Dal	2,472	0.3%
Gajendra Singh Gaur	Independent	2,191	0.3%
Shikhar Chand Patodi (Jain)	Independent	2,136	0.3%
Nand Kishore Soni	Independent	1,886	0.2%
Ghanshyam Chandel	Independent	1,434	0.2%
Chintan Trivedi	Independent	1,336	0.2%
Parmanand Metharam Tolani	Independent	1,314	0.2%
Vishnu Das	Independent	1,281	0.2%
Ajit Kumar Jain (Patwa)	Independent	732	0.1%
Mohan Chouhan Malviya	PRSP	688	0.1%
Samadhan Naik	RPI(A)	628	0.1%
Ramsingh	RPIE	562	0.1%
Radheshyam Mukati	LPSP	439	0.1%

2014

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sumitra Mahajan (Tai)	Bharatiya Janata Party	854,972	64.9%
Satyanarayan Patel	Indian National Congress	388,071	29.5%
Anil Trivedi	Aam Aadmi Party	35,169	2.7%
Dharamdas Ahirwar	Bahujan Samaj Party	7,422	0.6%
None Of The Above	Independent	5,944	0.5%
Mohammad Imtiyaz Khan	Independent	3,862	0.3%
Ramchandra Vasaini (Rama Seth)	Independent	3,725	0.3%
Rakesh Kumar Patel	Independent	2,528	0.2%
Praveen Kumar Ajmera Jain	Independent	1,867	0.1%
Parmanand Tolani	Independent	1,768	0.1%
Dr. Neha Sharma	Samajwadi Party	1,619	0.1%
Momd.Tanveer	Independent	1,576	0.1%
Ravi Sirwaiya	Independent	1,356	0.1%
P.T. Jagdish Chandra Bhatt	JMBP	1,352	0.1%
Jameela Bi	Independent	981	0.1%
Shakti Sudha Sharma	Independent	740	0.1%
Syed Nizam Ahmed	Independent	740	0.1%
Ghanshyam Chandel	Independent	598	0.0%
Mamta Bhati	RAM	579	0.0%
Ajeet Kumar Jain Patwa (Dharti Pakad)	Independent	554	0.0%
Santosh Kumar Deen Bandhu	Independent	517	0.0%
Ramchandr Parmar	BMP	477	0.0%
Harish Sahu	Samyukta Socialist Party	400	0.0%

2019

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Shankar Lalwani	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,068,569	65.8%
Pankaj Sanghvi	Indian National Congress	520,815	32.1%
Er. Deepchand Ahirwal	Bahujan Samaj Party	8,666	0.5%
Iftikhar Ahmed Khan	MDP	4,455	0.3%
Shailendra Sharma	Independent	3,364	0.2%
Ramesh Patil	Independent	3,184	0.2%
Shri Surendra	Independent	2,596	0.2%
Ranjeet Gohar	Independent	2,405	0.1%
Haji Mustak Ansari	Independent	2,019	0.1%
Rajkaran Yadav (Teemai)	Independent	1,374	0.1%
Parmanand Tolani	Independent	1,233	0.1%
Mahendra Tikliya	Independent	838	0.1%
Kamlesh Vaishnav	HND	699	0.0%
Ajmera S Praveen Kumar	Independent	693	0.0%
Dr. Sandeep Vasantrao Kadwe	Independent	631	0.0%
Dheeraj Dubey Patrakar	Samajwadi Party	614	0.0%
Rajendra Agarwal 'Raju'	SP(I)	528	0.0%
Prakash Verma	Independent	498	0.0%
Bhavana Kishore Sangeliya	JC	459	0.0%
Sri Imran Baksh	Independent	423	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

Indore 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, Independent, Bharatiya Lok Dal, Congress (I), Bharatiya Janata Party.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Indore in the 2019 Lok Sabha election?

Shankar Lalwani (Bharatiya Janata Party) won Indore, Madhya Pradesh, in 2019 with 1,068,569 votes (65.8%), a margin of 547,754 votes over Pankaj Sanghvi.

Which parties have won Indore since 1957?

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

What was the closest result in Indore?

The closest result on record for Indore was 2009, when Bharatiya Janata Party beat Indian National Congress by just 11,480 votes (1.4 percentage points).