Congress candidate Naresh Gyanchandani had lost the Bairagarh constituency to the BJP's Rameshwar Sharma. Rameshwar Sharma had secured 1,05,000 votes while Naresh Gyanchandani got just over 91,000 votes.
Congress party had used the tragic incidents at Mandsaur to indulge in politics as they had targetted the Shivraj Singh Chouhan's BJP government before the elections claiming that the state government had deliberately attacked farmers at Mandsaur.