Constituency
166. Captainganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1991
UP-CAPTAINGANJ
IND 33.9%won by 15.0%JP 18.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.5% to 15.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJanahitha Paksha (JP) finished second with 18.8% — it did not contest here in 1989.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 52.7% between them, down from 63.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,01,774
Margin
15,304
15.04%
Candidates
15 contested · winner IND- 1KRISHAN KIKAR SINGHIndependent · IND34,47433.9%
- 2RAM PRASAD CHAUDHARYJanahitha Paksha · JP19,17018.8%
- 3RANJIT SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,94317.6%
- 4KAPIL DEVBahujan Samaj Party · BSP13,12412.9%
- 5RAMESH CHANDERJanata Dal · JD7,3177.2%
- 6CHHOTE LALIndependent · IND4,8684.8%
- 7RAM ACHALDDP · DDP1,2831.3%
- 8RAM ADHARIndependent · IND7310.7%
- 9ANIL KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND5780.6%
- 10ASHOK KUMARIndependent · IND5370.5%
- 11SAKILIndependent · IND4670.5%
- 12PARDEEP SINGHIndependent · IND4050.4%
- 13DIN DAYAL TRIPATHIIndependent · IND3330.3%
- 14OM PARKASHIndependent · IND2800.3%
- 15KUNJ BIHARIIndependent · IND2640.3%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–JP swing
- −30.5%
- IND share
- 45.6% → 33.9%
- JP share
- 0.0% → 18.8%
- Turnout
- — → —