Constituency
421. Bijnor
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-BIJNOR
BJP 36.5%won by 4.5%SP 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.7% to 4.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 32.0% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.4% between them, down from 77.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.0% to 49.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,13,828
Turnout
49.9%
Valid votes
6,05,137
Margin
27,417
4.53%
Candidates
26 contested · winner BJP- 1MANGAL RAM PREMIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,20,80636.5%
- 2SATISH KUMARSamajwadi Party · SP1,93,38932.0%
- 3CHETAN SWAROOPBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,57,33926.0%
- 4BANWARI LALIndian National Congress · INC6,1171.0%
- 5VIJAYPAL SINGHIndependent · IND5,9141.0%
- 6ASHA CHOUDHARYAIICT · AIICT4,8850.8%
- 7BHUDEVIndependent · IND3,8250.6%
- 8SHASHI DEVIIndependent · IND1,6690.3%
- 9REKHA RANIBSPR · BSPR1,6430.3%
- 10VEER SINGHIndependent · IND1,2990.2%
- 11GENDA SINGHIndependent · IND9950.2%
- 12BHUPENDER PAL SINGHIBSP · IBSP8850.1%
- 13AMAR SINGHFBL · FBL8130.1%
- 14MEGHRAJ SINGHIndependent · IND7740.1%
- 15KHACHERUIndependent · IND7530.1%
- 16GHASI RAMABRS · ABRS5790.1%
- 17RAM SINGHIndependent · IND4700.1%
- 18MITHAN SINGHRPI · RPI4700.1%
- 19SUKH LALIndependent · IND4620.1%
- 20MANO URF MAN SINGHIndependent · IND3850.1%
- 21CHATAR SINGHIndependent · IND3760.1%
- 22JUGDISH SINGHIndependent · IND3470.1%
- 23MANOJ KUMARIndependent · IND3160.1%
- 24ASHA RAMIndependent · IND2570.0%
- 25HARGOVINDIndependent · IND1920.0%
- 26KALWA SINGHIndependent · IND1770.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–SP swing
- −42.7%
- BJP share
- 47.2% → 36.5%
- SP share
- 0.0% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- 55.9% → 49.9%