Election
Constituency

129. Katehari

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996

UP-KATEHARI

BSP 35.4%won by 3.8%BJP 31.6%

What changed here

Derived

Bahujan Samaj Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.0% to 3.8%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,50,199
Margin
5,764
3.84%

Since 1993

Derived
Winner then
BSP
Winner now
BSP
BSPBJP swing
−28.2%
BSP share
51.3% 35.4%
BJP share
19.3% 31.6%
Turnout