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388. Ghaziabad

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996

UP-GHAZIABAD

BJP 57.9%won by 35.5%SP 22.4%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.8% to 35.5%.

  • New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 22.4% — it polled just 0.6% in 1993.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.3% of the vote between them, up from 72.9% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,91,749
Margin
68,015
35.47%

Candidates

9 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1BALESHWAR TYAGIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,10,99057.9%
  2. 2JITENDRASamajwadi Party · SP42,97522.4%
  3. 3GURVINDERBahujan Samaj Party · BSP35,75918.6%
  4. 4KRISHNABHJS · BHJS7880.4%
  5. 5DEVVRATSJPR · SJPR3970.2%
  6. 6MOHD. YUSUFCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL3520.2%
  7. 7SHOBHAIndependent · IND2060.1%
  8. 8DAULATIndependent · IND2030.1%
  9. 9SATISHIndependent · IND790.0%

Since 1993

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–SP swing
−12.3%
BJP share
48.4% → 57.9%
SP share
0.6% → 22.4%
Turnout
— → —
387. Dadri389. Muradnagar
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