Constituency
396. Meerut Cantonment
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-MEERUT-CANTONMENT
BJP 55.9%won by 31.1%BSP 24.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 30.7% to 31.1%.
- New challengerBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished second with 24.8% — 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
1,31,859
Margin
41,046
31.13%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1AMIT AGARWALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP73,72655.9%
- 2RAMESH DHINGRABahujan Samaj Party · BSP32,68024.8%
- 3MUKESHBKKGP · BKKGP23,87518.1%
- 4KRISHAN PALKVP · KVP4750.4%
- 5RAJEEVIndependent · IND2000.2%
- 6NARESHIndependent · IND1840.1%
- 7SHIV KUMARIndependent · IND1630.1%
- 8PUNIT KUMARIndependent · IND1520.1%
- 9YASEEN SHEIKHAIMF · AIMF1210.1%
- 10KISHAN LALIndependent · IND650.0%
- 11BALJEET SINGHIndependent · IND630.0%
- 12NAND KISHOREIndependent · IND470.0%
- 13SANDEEPIndependent · IND410.0%
- 14SANJEEVIndependent · IND270.0%
- 15PREMIndependent · IND250.0%
- 16ASHU RASTOGYIndependent · IND150.0%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–BSP swing
- −26.4%
- BJP share
- 57.5% → 55.9%
- BSP share
- 0.0% → 24.8%
- Turnout
- — → —