Constituency
24. Kanth
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-KANTH
BJP 42.0%won by 7.8%BSP 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janahitha Paksha (JP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 7.8%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 24.5% to 42.0% of the vote here (+17.5%).
- New challengerBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished second with 34.3% — it did not contest here in 1993.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.3% of the vote between them, up from 50.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,50,526
Margin
11,671
7.75%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1RAJESH KUMAR URF CHUNNUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP63,23342.0%
- 2RIZWAN AHMAD KHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP51,56234.3%
- 3SAMAR PAL SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP24,88116.5%
- 4MOHD. ISMAELKVP · KVP6,4184.3%
- 5MATLOOBNew Labour Party · NLP3,2282.1%
- 6DHYAN SINGHBHJS · BHJS4310.3%
- 7JAI CHANDUPRP · UPRP3370.2%
- 8KULDEEPIndependent · IND1750.1%
- 9JITENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND1500.1%
- 10SHEEL CHANDIndependent · IND1110.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- JP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BSP swing
- −16.8%
- BJP share
- 24.5% → 42.0%
- BSP share
- 0.0% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- — → —