Constituency
97. Purwa
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-PURWA
SP 30.3%won by 1.4%BJP 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedSamajwadi Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.6% to 1.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.2% between them, down from 72.3% — 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
1,34,071
Margin
1,810
1.35%
Candidates
8 contested · winner SP- 1UDAI RAJSamajwadi Party · SP40,57330.3%
- 2HRIDAI NARAINBharatiya Janata Party · BJP38,76328.9%
- 3M.H. KHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP37,45227.9%
- 4PREM SHANKAR URF BACHCHA DIXITIndependent · IND13,87010.3%
- 5MAHAVIRBHJS · BHJS1,4221.1%
- 6RAM NARAINIndependent · IND9070.7%
- 7POOT SINGHIndependent · IND6400.5%
- 8RAMUIndependent · IND4440.3%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- SP
- SP–BJP swing
- −4.2%
- SP share
- 38.9% → 30.3%
- BJP share
- 33.3% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- — → —