REPUBLIC OF INDIA STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH STATE ELECTION OF 20 NOVEMBER 2003 ================================================================================ Source: Election Commission of India website STATEWIDE SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS ================================================================================ Registered voters: 37,845,538 Votes cast: 25,509,260 67.4% Invalid votes: 9,489 00.0% Valid votes: 25,499,771 100.0% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Votes and seats are compared with those won at the 1998 elections -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 1,852,502 07.3 (+01.2) 2 (-009) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 10,836,663 42.5 (+03.2) 173 (+054) Communist Party (Marxist) (CPIM) 62,006 00.2 1 Indian National Congress (INC) 8,059,180 31.6 (-09.0) 38 (-134) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) 324,780 01.3 1 Rashtriya Samanta Dal (RSD) 335,085 01.3 2 Samajwadi Party (SP) 953,548 03.7 (+02.1) 7 (+003) Independents and others 3,076,007 12.1 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 25,499,771 230 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The size of the legislature was reduced from 320 to 230 following the creation of the new state of Chhattisgahr.