Constituency
308. Kannauj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-KANNAUJ
BJP 34.9%won by 0.7%SP 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.4% to 0.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 878 votes (0.72%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
1,22,580
Margin
878
0.72%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1BANWARI LAL DOHREYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP42,78834.9%
- 2KALYAN SINGH DOHREYSamajwadi Party · SP41,91034.2%
- 3GIRISH BHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP34,23927.9%
- 4SUSHILApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD2,1091.7%
- 5SUBHASH CHANDRABHJS · BHJS1,0370.8%
- 6GOVARANDHANIndependent · IND4970.4%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–SP swing
- −8.7%
- BJP share
- 41.5% → 34.9%
- SP share
- 32.1% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- — → —