Election
Constituency

118. Ayodhya

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2002

UP-AYODHYA

BJP 38.7%won by 13.5%BSP 25.2%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.2% to 13.5%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.0% between them, down from 75.0% — the field split more ways.

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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Valid votes
1,32,448
Margin
17,860
13.48%

Candidates

12 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1LALLOO SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP51,28938.7%
  2. 2ABHAY SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP33,42925.2%
  3. 3VED PRAKASH GUPTASamajwadi Party · SP31,93624.1%
  4. 4ASHOK SINGHIndian National Congress · INC8,3686.3%
  5. 5MADAN PRAKASH MAURYAApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD2,5491.9%
  6. 6ASHOK KUMAR PATHAKIndependent · IND1,7071.3%
  7. 7ALI ARIFMUL · MUL1,0780.8%
  8. 8HARI SHANKAR YADAVRTKP · RTKP5670.4%
  9. 9PARMESHWAR DASSSJP · SSJP4400.3%
  10. 10AYODHYA PRASAD MISHRAIndependent · IND4390.3%
  11. 11SIYARAM TIWARIMNVP · MNVP4080.3%
  12. 12DURGAPRASAD TIWARI 'AFAT'ABJS · ABJS2380.2%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–BSP swing
−10.3%
BJP share
45.6% → 38.7%
BSP share
21.8% → 25.2%
Turnout
— → —
117. Tanda119. Bikapur
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