Constituency
89. Shahabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-SHAHABAD
SP 33.3%won by 0.2%BJP 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Samajwadi Party (SP), which now leads by 0.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.4% between them, down from 73.0% — the field split more ways.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 219 votes (0.16%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,37,424
Margin
219
0.16%
Candidates
9 contested · winner SP- 1BABOO KHANSamajwadi Party · SP45,70633.3%
- 2GANGA BHAKT SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP45,48733.1%
- 3RAM AUTAR DIXITIndian National Congress · INC42,15230.7%
- 4RAMESHWARIndependent · IND1,4101.0%
- 5PRABHU DAYALIndependent · IND1,1900.9%
- 6GANGA SAGARIndependent · IND4240.3%
- 7RAKESH KUMAR TIWARIIndependent · IND4170.3%
- 8MAHIPALIndependent · IND3850.3%
- 9ABDUL SATTAR KHANIndependent · IND2530.2%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- SPflipped
- SP–BJP swing
- +3.3%
- SP share
- 35.0% → 33.3%
- BJP share
- 38.1% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —