Constituency
290. Kanpur Cantonment
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-KANPUR-CANTONMENT
BJP 59.5%won by 38.2%BSP 21.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.2% to 38.2%.
- New challengerBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished second with 21.3% — it did not contest here in 1993.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,08,525
Margin
41,491
38.23%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1SATISH MAHANABharatiya Janata Party · BJP64,57859.5%
- 2ASHOK KUMAR KALIABahujan Samaj Party · BSP23,08721.3%
- 3GANESH AWASTHISamajwadi Party · SP19,92718.4%
- 4PRAVIN GOPAL JEEBHJS · BHJS3670.3%
- 5ASIM ALAMNew Labour Party · NLP2140.2%
- 6NET RAMIndependent · IND1820.2%
- 7RAJEEV RAM PALIndependent · IND930.1%
- 8VIJAI KUMAR BAJPAI URF GUDDUABJS · ABJS770.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–BSP swing
- −14.0%
- BJP share
- 52.2% → 59.5%
- BSP share
- 0.0% → 21.3%
- Turnout
- — → —