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Constituency

236. Kerakat

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2002

UP-KERAKAT

BJP 32.9%won by 0.8%BSP 32.1%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.9% to 0.8%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 961 votes (0.76%) — among the closest results anywhere.
  • 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,27,010
Margin
961
0.76%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJPBSP swing
−7.1%
BJP share
38.0% 32.9%
BSP share
30.1% 32.1%
Turnout