Constituency
256. Shahganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-SHAHGANJ
BJP 35.9%won by 6.0%BSP 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 6.0%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 41.2% to 35.9% of the vote here (−5.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.7% between them, down from 90.0% — 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
1,27,203
Margin
7,618
5.99%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1BANKEY LAL SONKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP45,60635.9%
- 2RAM DAWARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP37,98829.9%
- 3DEEP CHANDRA SONKARIndependent · IND36,90429.0%
- 4VIPPHAN PASWANNew Labour Party · NLP4,2053.3%
- 5RAM ALOKBHJS · BHJS1,4761.2%
- 6GIRJA SHANKARApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD1,0240.8%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BSP swing
- +13.6%
- BJP share
- 41.2% → 35.9%
- BSP share
- 48.8% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —