Constituency
408. Muzaffar Nagar
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-MUZAFFAR-NAGAR
BJP 38.8%won by 4.8%JD 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.9% to 4.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Janata Dal (JD).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.8% between them, down from 89.8% — 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
1,56,441
Margin
7,552
4.83%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1SUSHEELA DEVIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP60,69638.8%
- 2SOMANSH PRAKASHJanata Dal · JD53,14434.0%
- 3MITHLESHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP39,90325.5%
- 4RAJ KUMAR GOELIndependent · IND9100.6%
- 5MUKESH KUMARIndependent · IND4430.3%
- 6RAMESH CHANDIndependent · IND3490.2%
- 7SATISH CHANDRA GUPTAIndependent · IND2840.2%
- 8TARA RANIBHJS · BHJS2810.2%
- 9DLELBSPR · BSPR1980.1%
- 10MAHENDRA KUMARIndependent · IND1450.1%
- 11SURESH PALIndependent · IND880.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–JD swing
- −43.9%
- BJP share
- 52.8% → 38.8%
- JD share
- 4.1% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → —