1998 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in November 1998. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats and Digvijaya Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister for the second time.

1998 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
27 November 1998
All 320 assembly constituencies
161 seats needed for a majority
Registered44,861,764
Turnout60.22%
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Digvijaya Singh undeclared Kanshi Ram
Party INC BJP BSP
Leader since 1993 1984
Leader's seat Raghogarh
Last election 174 117 11
Seats won 172 119 11
Seat change 2 2 --
Popular vote 10,778,985 10,430,233 1,633,825
Percentage 40.59% 39.28% 6.15%
Chief Minister before election

Digvijaya Singh
INC

 Elected Chief Minister

Digvijaya Singh
INC

These were the last elections to the legislative assembly before the passage of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000, which carved out the new state of Chhattisgarh from Madhya Pradesh. From the 320 seats in the undivided legislative assembly, the new Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly was assigned 90 Seats, while Madhya Pradesh was left with the remaining 230 seats.

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