Constituency
289. Generalganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-GENERALGANJ
BJP 39.7%won by 2.9%SP 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.3% to 2.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.4% between them, down from 84.9% — 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
94,349
Margin
2,747
2.91%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1NEERAJ CHATURVEDIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP37,41139.7%
- 2SURENDRA MOHAN AGRAWALSamajwadi Party · SP34,66436.7%
- 3ASHOK KUMAR DIXITBahujan Samaj Party · BSP20,52321.8%
- 4MOHD. NASEEMNew Labour Party · NLP8460.9%
- 5MOHD. SULEMANIndian National League · INL5490.6%
- 6IQBAL SIDDIQUIIndependent · IND2280.2%
- 7MADAN GOPALBHJS · BHJS850.1%
- 8MAHESHIndependent · IND430.0%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–SP swing
- −4.4%
- BJP share
- 46.1% → 39.7%
- SP share
- 38.8% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- — → —