Constituency
414. Sarsawa
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-SARSAWA
BJP 29.5%won by 0.2%INC 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 0.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.8% between them, down from 66.8% — the field split more ways.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 304 votes (0.19%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 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
1,61,428
Margin
304
0.19%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1NIRBHAYA PAL SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,57829.5%
- 2SAHEB SINGHIndian National Congress · INC47,27429.3%
- 3MOHD. FEEROZ AFTABIndependent · IND38,86624.1%
- 4JAG PAL SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP26,52216.4%
- 5OM PALRPI · RPI5960.4%
- 6SHER SINGHIndependent · IND3360.2%
- 7TAHIR H.KVP · KVP2560.2%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +13.5%
- BJP share
- 26.7% → 29.5%
- INC share
- 40.0% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- — → —