Constituency
66. Shahjahanpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-SHAHJAHANPUR
BJP 45.2%won by 16.7%INC 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.6% to 16.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.6% between them, down from 83.6% — 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
1,32,947
Margin
22,265
16.75%
Candidates
14 contested · winner BJP- 1SURESH KUMAR KHANNABharatiya Janata Party · BJP60,05845.2%
- 2SIKANDAR ALI KHANIndian National Congress · INC37,79328.4%
- 3OM PRAKASH GUPTASamajwadi Party · SP23,33917.6%
- 4MITTHOO LALIndependent · IND7,8335.9%
- 5SARITA KHANNAJanata Dal · JD1,0800.8%
- 6AKHILESHIndependent · IND5650.4%
- 7VIRENDRA PAL SINGHIndependent · IND5420.4%
- 8MOHD. RASHIDMMUP · MMUP4690.4%
- 9RAM MURTIABJS · ABJS3760.3%
- 10RAMVEERBHJS · BHJS3620.3%
- 11SANJAYIndependent · IND2190.2%
- 12PREM SHANKARIndependent · IND1540.1%
- 13RAMAKANTIndependent · IND1010.1%
- 14INDRA PALIndependent · IND560.0%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −21.2%
- BJP share
- 48.6% → 45.2%
- INC share
- 10.7% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- — → —