Constituency
263. Chunar
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-CHUNAR
BJP 36.6%won by 5.6%BSP 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.5% to 5.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.5% between them, down from 80.4% — 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
1,53,630
Margin
8,624
5.61%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1OM PRAKASH SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP56,19136.6%
- 2BHOLA NATH BACHCHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP47,56731.0%
- 3YADU NATH SINGHJanata Dal · JD44,40928.9%
- 4RAM LALITBHJS · BHJS1,8681.2%
- 5GHANSHYAMIndependent · IND1,6001.0%
- 6DEVI PRASADApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD1,1510.7%
- 7BECHANIndependent · IND8440.5%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–BSP swing
- −2.9%
- BJP share
- 44.4% → 36.6%
- BSP share
- 35.9% → 31.0%
- Turnout
- — → —