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Durg is one of the 11 Lok Sabha constituencies of Chhattisgarh.
As per the last census report, Durg houses 25,15,673 people. Out of them, 15.47% of voters belong to Scheduled Caste category while 5.50% belong to Scheduled Tribes category. Moreover, 46.80% of voters are from urban areas while 53.20% voters stay in rural areas.
The total number of voters from the constituency are 18,55,781. Of them, 9,45,656 and 9,10,125 are male and female voters respectively.
Polling for Durg was held on Apr 23. In the last elections, INC's sitting MP Tamradwaj Sahu defeated BJP's Sushree Saroj Pandey by a small margin of 16,848 votes.
For the 2019 general elections of Durg, a total of 68% voters got inked.
In a completely one-sided battle, Bharatiya Janata Party's VIJAY BAGHEL crushed Indian National Congress's PRATIMA CHANDRAKAR by a margin of 391,978 to win Durg.
For this seat, Bahujan Samaj Party placed its bet on Geetanjali Singh while the Bharatiya Janata Party fielded Vijay Baghel. Kamlesh Kumar Nagarchi was the candiate from Shiv Sena.
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