Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Check out the latest scoop from Newstrack/Election Chaska!

The Chhattisgarh elections have wrapped up with two phases of polling. Now we're eagerly waiting for the results on December 3. Can you believe there are a whopping 958 candidates in the race for 90 seats in the assembly? Some big shots like the outgoing Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Deputy Chief Minister T Singh Deo, along with eight state ministers and four MPs, all are vying for the Chhattisgarh Assembly.

But here's the juicy part: according to Newstrack/Election Chaska's survey, it looks like the Congress is gonna hold onto their power in Chhattisgarh. The BJP won't be able to break their stronghold.

Stay tuned for the official results!

 About Chhatisgarh Elections

In the state elections of 2018 in November, following chart reflects the party wise seat distribution:

The concluding round of the two-phase State Assembly election in Chhattisgarh witnessed a voter turnout of 68.18 per cent on Friday, November 17. A total of 958 candidates, including political heavyweights like incumbent Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, his deputy T.S. Singh Deo, eight State ministers, and four Members of Parliament, contested for 70 seats in the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly.

# Constituency District INC BJP Tough Fight

1 Bharatpur-Sonhat (ST) Koriya 2 1 0

2 Manendragarh

3 Baikunthpur

4 Premnagar Surajpur 1 1 0

5 Bhatgaon

6 Pratappur (ST) Balrampur 2 1 0

7 Ramanujganj (ST)

8 Samri (ST)

9 Lundra (ST) Surguja 1 2 0

10 Ambikapur

11 Sitapur (ST)

12 Jashpur (ST) Jashpur 2 1 0

13 Kunkuri (ST)

14 Pathalgaon (ST)

15 Lailunga (ST) Raigarh 2 3 0

16 Raigarh

17 Sarangarh (SC)

18 Kharsia

19 Dharamjaigarh (ST)

20 Rampur (ST) Korba 2 2 0

21 Korba

22 Katghora

23 Pali-Tanakhar (ST)

24 Marwahi (ST) Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi 1 1 0

25 Kota

26 Lormi Mungeli 1 1 0

27 Mungeli (SC)

28 Takhatpur Bilaspur 2 2 1

29 Bilha

30 Bilaspur

31 Beltara

32 Masturi (SC)

33 Akaltara Janjgir-Champa 2 4 0

34 Janjgir-Champa

35 Sakti

36 Chandrapur

37 Jaijaipur

38 Pamgarh (SC)

39 Saraipali (SC) Mahasamund 2 2 0

40 Basna

41 Khallari

42 Mahasamund

43 Bilaigarh (SC) Baloda Bazar 2 2 0

44 Kasdol

45 Baloda Bazar

46 Bhatapara

47 Dharsiwa Raipur 3 3 1

48 Raipur City Gramin

49 Raipur City West

50 Raipur City North

51 Raipur City South

52 Arang (SC)

53 Abhanpur

54 Rajim Gariaband 2 0 0

55 Bindrawagarh (ST)

56 Sihawa (ST) Dhamtari 2 1 0

57 Kurud

58 Dhamtari

59 Sanjari Balod Balod 2 1 0

60 Daundi Lohara (ST)

61 Gunderdehi

62 Patan Durg 2 2 2

63 Durg Gramin

64 Durg City

65 Bhilai Nagar

66 Vaishali Nagar

67 Ahiwara (SC)

68 Saja Bemetara 2 1 0

69 Bemetara

70 Navagarh (SC)

71 Pandariya Kabirdham 2 0 0

72 Kawardha

73 Khairagarh Rajnandgaon 3 3 0

74 Dongargarh (SC)

75 Rajnandgaon

76 Dongargaon

77 Khujji

78 Mohla-Manpur (ST)

79 Antagarh (ST) Kanker 3 0 0

80 Bhanupratappur (ST)

81 Kanker (ST)

82 Keshkal (ST) Kondagaon 1 1 0

83 Kondagaon (ST)

84 Narayanpur (ST) Narayanpur 1 0 0

85 Bastar (ST) Bastar 3 0 0

86 Jagdalpur

87 Chitrakot (ST)

88 Dantewada (ST) Dantewada 1 0 0

89 Bijapur (ST) Bijapur 1 0 0

90 Konta (ST) Sukma 1 0

51 35 4

Total seats : 90

INC : 56

BJP : 30

Tough fight : 04

Key Factor

Baghel and Congress party leaders have continuously maintained that the BJP has been using central investigating agencies to destabilise the Congress governments in poll-bound states of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, with Baghel even commenting that the real challenger from BJP against the Congress in the upcoming election is ED.

Between January and October this year, the ED released 11 press releases of actions across Chhattisgarh. Among the accused named in the press statements were Saumya Chaurasia, a Chhattisgarh state civil service officer who was ex-assistant to CM Baghel, and Anwar Dhebar, brother of Raipur mayor Aijaz Dhebar. It also attached properties of Congress leader Devendra Yadav, Ramgopal Verma and others. Yadav, the youngest MLA from the Bhilai city seat, is contesting again from the same seat and is known to be a Baghel loyalist.The ED, in its dozen press releases just this year – (in 2022, the ED released only 2 press notes from Chhattisgarh) – went from ascribing the actions to “higher powers” to hinting at political involvement. In the Mahadev app money laundering case, the central investigating agency raided the house of former journalist Vinod Verma, political advisor and close aide of CM Baghel.

There is another important issue, fair price for paddy cultivators, strengthening rural economy, rampant corruption, unemployment and matters pertaining to tribal including protection of jal, jungle and jameen are the prominent issues carry higher probability to be flare up during the campaign for the upcoming elections in Chhattisgarh scheduled to be held in November.

Having a month falling closer to assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, the two prominent parties in state are set to escalate their election campaigns on a war-footing note for the 90-assembly constituencies that go to two-phased polls on November 7 and 17.

With nearly 38 lakhs farmers in Chhatisgarh, the issue related to agriculture and paddy plays a crucial role to ascertain the fate of political parties in state, particularly when congress has waived off farmers’ loan soon after coming to power in 2018, as promised and increased the minimum support price of paddy from 2100 to Rs. 2500.