Constituency
246. Gangapur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-GANGAPUR
BJP 29.3%won by 2.6%BSP 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.6% to 2.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.0% between them, down from 62.9% — 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
1,50,624
Margin
3,984
2.64%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1BACHNU RAM PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP44,13329.3%
- 2KAMLA RAJBHARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP40,14926.7%
- 3SURENDRAApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD32,95121.9%
- 4RAJENDRA PRASHADCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM25,27816.8%
- 5NAGA YADAVIndependent · IND1,7421.2%
- 6HEMANT SHUKLAIndependent · IND1,4501.0%
- 7VAKILNew Labour Party · NLP1,4491.0%
- 8BHOLA NATHIndependent · IND1,1800.8%
- 9RAM ASHREIndependent · IND1,1270.7%
- 10SAMARUBHJS · BHJS6880.5%
- 11BABU LALIndependent · IND4770.3%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–BSP swing
- −4.0%
- BJP share
- 34.8% → 29.3%
- BSP share
- 28.2% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —