Constituency
419. Almora
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-ALMORA
BJP 41.0%won by 14.5%INC 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.9% to 14.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.6% between them, down from 82.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.0% to 42.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,33,731
Turnout
42.1%
Valid votes
3,93,585
Margin
56,906
14.46%
Candidates
14 contested · winner BJP- 1BACHI SINGH RAWATBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,61,54841.0%
- 2HARISH CHANDRA SINGH RAWATIndian National Congress · INC1,04,64226.6%
- 3BALAM SINGH JANOTIAIICT · AIICT68,72617.5%
- 4MAHENDRA SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP28,4077.2%
- 5JITENDERA KUMAR PANTIndependent · IND9,8492.5%
- 6NANDAN SINGH BORASamajwadi Party · SP6,0961.5%
- 7GOPAL RAMIndependent · IND3,9471.0%
- 8MOHD.DILSHAD KHANIndependent · IND1,9770.5%
- 9GOVIND LALIndependent · IND1,7030.4%
- 10GULJAR KHANIndependent · IND1,5860.4%
- 11DEWAKI DEVIIndependent · IND1,5360.4%
- 12MANJU GOSWAMIIndependent · IND1,5140.4%
- 13JEET SINGH PARIHARIndependent · IND1,1490.3%
- 14KRISHNA PATHAKIndependent · IND9050.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +5.5%
- BJP share
- 45.9% → 41.0%
- INC share
- 37.0% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- 38.1% → 42.1%