Constituency
129. Katehari
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-KATEHARI
BSP 35.4%won by 3.8%BJP 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedBahujan 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,50,199
Margin
5,764
3.84%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BSP- 1DHARMRAJ NISHADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP53,21235.4%
- 2ANIL KUMAR TEWARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,44831.6%
- 3RAM DEO PATELSamajwadi Party · SP42,95028.6%
- 4JAI PRAKASH PATELApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD1,9361.3%
- 5RAM PRAKASH SINGHSJPR · SJPR1,6001.1%
- 6SABHA JEET VERMAIndependent · IND7710.5%
- 7GIRJA PRASADNew Labour Party · NLP6850.5%
- 8DILEEP KUMAR VIMALIndependent · IND4890.3%
- 9SATI RAMBHJS · BHJS4210.3%
- 10SHRI RAM AMBESHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL3850.3%
- 11RAM NEWALIndependent · IND3020.2%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- BSP
- BSP–BJP swing
- −28.2%
- BSP share
- 51.3% → 35.4%
- BJP share
- 19.3% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —