The performance of the Congress in the recently concluded lok Sabha election for Indore parliamentary constituency has turned out to be even poorer as compared to its performance in the Assembly elections last year. The result of Indore lok Sabha election has revealed that the margin of cumulative defeat for the Congress candidate in all eight Assembly segments of the district has doubled as compared to its performance in the Assembly elections.
In the Assembly elections that concluded in December last year, the Congress had been able to wrest one Assembly seat of Rau, while it had suffered defeat in the remaining seven Assembly constituencies. The margin of defeat for the Congress in all the seven Assembly segments in the Assembly elections was recorded at 2,62,319 votes.
However, in the lok Sabha elections, the margin of defeat for the Congress has become wider at 4,67,467 votes. The defeat margin is even more pronounced and wider in urban areas of these constituencies as compared to the rural areas.
As against defeat margin of 6,1693 votes in Assembly elections in Indore- Assembly segment, the margin of defeat for the Congress from this constituency in the lok Sabha election has become 88,041 votes.
Similarly, the margin of defeat for the Congress in Indore -2 Assembly segment was 93,566 votes in the lok Sabha elections as against 91,017 votes in the Assembly elections. In Indore-3, the defeat margin for the Congress in the Assembly election was 13,318 votes as against 35,954 votes in the lok Sabha elections.
In Indore-4, the Congress candidate suffered victory by 73,043 as against 33,823 votes in Assembly elections. Similarly it was 50,195 votes in Indore-5 as against 14,418 votes in the Assembly elections. Of the remaining three Assembly segments, in the lok Sabha election, the Congress candidate was defeated by 40,226 votes as against 17,583 votes in Assembly elections. Similarly, against 30,197 votes in Deepalpur in the Assembly election, the Congress candidate’s defeat margin stood at 30,738 votes , while the defeat margin for the Congress in the lok Sabha election was 49,704 votes.