No wave in Chhattisgarh, only ripples

The BJP might have won Chhattisgarh, but in terms of vote share or even the number of seats neither BJP nor Congress seems to have recorded any great difference from their 2008 performance. Neither the so-called Modi wave nor Raman Singh's good governance seems to have had much impact on the outcome with BJP's vote share moving up marginally from 40.3% in 2008 to 41% and its seat count going one down to 49.
Congress saw its vote share rise from 38.6%to40.3% giving it 39 seats, one more than in 2008.In both BJP and Congress 25 MLAs lost their seats, mostly because of voters switching affiliation, not really impacting the overall outcome. Only 21 candidates got re-elected from the same seat in Chhattisgarh, 15 of them were from BJP.
In Maoist-dominated Bastar, Congress made a comeback wresting seven seats from BJP. And in three of the four seats that BJP retained, its margin has shrunk.
In Konta, the only seat Congress won in 2008, its candidate Lakhma Kawasi, who escaped the May 25 massacre, not only retained his seat but pushed up the margin from 192 votes to a respectable 5,786 votes. In fact, Congress' gains in Bastar helped offset its losses in other parts of the state.
CM Raman Singh pulled off the second highest winning margin of 35,866 votes in Rajnandgaon, next to Ajit Jogi's son, Amit (46,250 votes) in Marwahi. In the constituency from where Raman Singh hails, Kawardha, though BJP retained its seat the winning margin shrank from 10,400 to just over 2,550. Ajit Jogi's wife Renu retained Kota though her margin fell by almost 5,000 votes.