1996 Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh

In the 1996 Indian general election for Madhya Pradesh polls were held for 40 seats in the state. The result was a major victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which won 27 seats.Indian National Congress (INC) fared poorly in this election and managed to won only 8 seats.

Result
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Parties and coalitions ! colspan="3" |Seats ! colspan="3" |Popular vote !Contested !Won !+/− !Votes !% !±pp
 * Bharatiya Janata Party
 * 39
 * 27
 * 15
 * 94,72,940
 * 41.32%
 * 0.56%
 * Indian National Congress
 * 40
 * 8
 * 19
 * 71,11,753
 * 31.02%
 * 14.32%
 * Bahujan Samaj Party
 * 28
 * 2
 * 1
 * 18,74,594
 * 8.18%
 * 4.64%
 * All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)
 * 33
 * 1
 * New
 * 10,78,589
 * 4.7%
 * New
 * Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress
 * 1
 * 1
 * New
 * 3,37,539
 * 1.47%
 * New
 * Independents
 * 1046
 * 1
 * 1
 * 21,94,115
 * 9.57%
 * 6.27%
 * colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9" |
 * - style="font-weight:bold;"
 * align="left" colspan="2"| Total
 * 40
 * colspan=2 bgcolor="#E9E9E9" |
 * 2,29,24,872
 * colspan=2 bgcolor="#E9E9E9" |
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Invalid votes
 * 8,20,541
 * 3.46
 * colspan="4" rowspan="5" style="background-color:#e9e9e9;"  |
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Votes cast / turnout
 * 2,37,48,322
 * 54.06
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Registered voters
 * 4,39,27,252
 * 100.00
 * }
 * 2,29,24,872
 * colspan=2 bgcolor="#E9E9E9" |
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Invalid votes
 * 8,20,541
 * 3.46
 * colspan="4" rowspan="5" style="background-color:#e9e9e9;"  |
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Votes cast / turnout
 * 2,37,48,322
 * 54.06
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Registered voters
 * 4,39,27,252
 * 100.00
 * }
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Registered voters
 * 4,39,27,252
 * 100.00
 * }
 * }