Constituency
163. Colonelganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-COLONELGANJ
BJP 38.2%won by 12.8%IND 25.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.1% to 12.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.3% — it polled just 1.0% in 1993.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.5% between them, down from 71.5% — 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
1,14,215
Margin
14,676
12.85%
Candidates
17 contested · winner BJP- 1AJAI PRATAP SINGH URF LALLA BHAIYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP43,59038.2%
- 2YOGESH PRATAP SINGH "YOGESH BHAIYA"Independent · IND28,91425.3%
- 3SURESH CHANDRA TRIPATHICommunist Party of India · CPI18,47616.2%
- 4VIKRAM VEER SHUKLABahujan Samaj Party · BSP10,0348.8%
- 5ANIL KUMAR MISRAPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,7063.2%
- 6RAM KAMAL GOSWAMIRSPP · RSPP2,3562.1%
- 7RAJENDRA PRATAP SINGH URF GUTTEY SINGHIndependent · IND8840.8%
- 8HALBAL MAURYABHJS · BHJS8650.8%
- 9NAND KUMAR SINGHNMNP · NMNP8250.7%
- 10PRAMOD MISRA (PRADHAN)Independent · IND7980.7%
- 11UDAI BHANIndependent · IND7620.7%
- 12RAM PAL SINGHIndependent · IND7340.6%
- 13SHYAM RAJ SINGHIndependent · IND6870.6%
- 14SHIV RAMCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL5200.5%
- 15OMKAR NATHIndependent · IND5060.4%
- 16RAM MANOHAR TIWARIIndependent · IND4230.4%
- 17ARUN KUMARIndependent · IND1350.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −38.5%
- BJP share
- 52.3% → 38.2%
- IND share
- 1.0% → 25.3%
- Turnout
- — → —