Constituency
216. Mehnagar
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-MEHNAGAR
CPM 35.3%won by 3.0%BSP 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Party (SP) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 3.0%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 26.4% to 35.3% of the vote here (+8.9%).
- New challengerBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished second with 32.3% — it did not contest here in 1993.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.7% of the vote between them, up from 62.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,39,026
Margin
4,109
2.96%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1RAM JUGCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM49,08235.3%
- 2VIDYA CHAUDHARYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP44,97332.3%
- 3KALPNATH PASWANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP41,65230.0%
- 4RAMDHARI PASWANNew Labour Party · NLP1,2090.9%
- 5CHANDRA BALIBHJS · BHJS1,1170.8%
- 6PARMAWATIRPI · RPI9930.7%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–BSP swing
- −23.4%
- CPM share
- 26.4% → 35.3%
- BSP share
- 0.0% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —