Rampur Baghelan, Sirmour, Semariya, Teonthar, Mauganj, Deotalab Elections Results Live News Updates: List of Winning Candidates

Bhopal, December 11: The results of assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh will be declared today. Counting of votes for polls results of 230 assembly seats, including Rampur Baghelan, Sirmour, Semariya, Teonthar, Mauganj and Deotalab, will begin at 8 am. A close contest was witnessed between the BJP and Congress in Rampur Baghelan, Sirmour, Semariya, Teonthar, Mauganj and Deotalab polls. Catch live updates on Rampur Baghelan, Sirmour, Semariya, Teonthar, Mauganj and Deotalab elections results here. Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections 2018 Results: Click Here For Live Updates.

In Rampur Baghelan, the BJP fielded Vikram Singh against Congress's nominee Ramshankar Payashi. BJP's Harsh Singh is the incumbent MLA from the constituency. In Sirmour, the BJP pitted its sitting legislator Divyaraj Singh and Congress candidate Aruna Tiwari. The Semariya assembly seat witnessed an electoral fight between BJP's KP Tripathi and Congress candidate Triyugi Narayan Shukla.

BJP candidate Shyamlal Dwivedi and Congress's Rama Shankar Patel locked horns against each other on Teonthar assembly seat. In 2013, BJP's Pandit Ramakant Tiwari was elected from the constituency. In Mauganj, the electoral contest is between Congress's sitting MLA Sukhendra Singh Banna and BJP candidate Pradeep Patel. In Deotalab, BJP fielded its sitting legislator Girish Goutam and Congress nominee Vidyawati Patel.

In Madhya Pradesh, the BJP is seeking a fourth consecutive term, while the Congress invested all its might to wrest power from the saffron party. In the 2013 assembly elections, the BJP had won 166 seats, while the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had bagged 58 and four seats respectively.

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