Constituency
60. Puranpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-PURANPUR
SP 39.0%won by 2.7%BJP 36.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Samajwadi Party (SP), which now leads by 2.7%.
- SP vote shareSP went from 25.7% to 39.0% of the vote here (+13.4%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.4% of the vote between them, up from 66.2% — 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
1,67,338
Margin
4,452
2.66%
Candidates
6 contested · winner SP- 1GOPAL KRISHNASamajwadi Party · SP65,33039.0%
- 2VINOD KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP60,87836.4%
- 3HARJINDER SINGH KAHLONBahujan Samaj Party · BSP27,28116.3%
- 4MOHAMMED ASLAMKVP · KVP7,0684.2%
- 5KRISHNA ADHIKARICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL4,2112.5%
- 6GURDEEP SINGHBHJS · BHJS2,5701.5%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- SPflipped
- SP–BJP swing
- −5.1%
- SP share
- 25.7% → 39.0%
- BJP share
- 17.9% → 36.4%
- Turnout
- — → —