Constituency
223. Chilkahar
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-CHILKAHAR
BSP 30.8%won by 2.0%BJP 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedBahujan Samaj Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.0% to 2.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.7% between them, down from 68.1% — 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
1,28,671
Margin
2,519
1.96%
Candidates
17 contested · winner BSP- 1CHHOTE LALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP39,64930.8%
- 2RAM IQBALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP37,13028.9%
- 3SANGRAM SINGH YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP25,43519.8%
- 4RAM GOVIND CHAUDHARYSJPR · SJPR16,19312.6%
- 5SANATAN PANDEYNew Labour Party · NLP6,6285.2%
- 6JANGBAHADUR KUSHWAHAIndependent · IND9190.7%
- 7KAMESHWARBHJS · BHJS4190.3%
- 8KUBERIndependent · IND3170.2%
- 9NAND JIIndependent · IND2900.2%
- 10DAYA SHANKARIndependent · IND2850.2%
- 11RAM BADAN YADAVBSPR · BSPR2700.2%
- 12LALITA PRASADIndependent · IND2500.2%
- 13BODHIRAMIndependent · IND2410.2%
- 14MADANIndependent · IND2350.2%
- 15SHIV SHANKARIndependent · IND1890.1%
- 16RAMESHWARIndependent · IND1200.1%
- 17AKHILESHIndependent · IND1010.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- BSP
- BSP–BJP swing
- −10.1%
- BSP share
- 40.1% → 30.8%
- BJP share
- 28.0% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- — → —