Constituency
479. Ghatampur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-GHATAMPUR
BJP 33.2%won by 2.5%BSP 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 2.5%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 22.4% to 33.2% of the vote here (+10.8%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 63.9% of the vote between them, up from 55.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.7% to 40.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,87,112
Turnout
40.8%
Valid votes
4,43,075
Margin
11,151
2.52%
Candidates
24 contested · winner BJP- 1KAMAL RANIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,47,21533.2%
- 2DHANI RAM SANKHWARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,36,06430.7%
- 3KESHRI LALJanata Dal · JD92,44220.9%
- 4SAROJ PRASADIndian National Congress · INC24,7185.6%
- 5BABU LALApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD16,1413.6%
- 6DESH RAJIndependent · IND6,4731.5%
- 7INDRAJEETAIICT · AIICT6,1501.4%
- 8RAM PRAKASHIndependent · IND2,2800.5%
- 9PRABHU SARANIndependent · IND1,2810.3%
- 10SHYAM SUNDERIndependent · IND1,2380.3%
- 11RAM DASIndependent · IND1,1920.3%
- 12RAMAVTARIndependent · IND1,0920.2%
- 13RAM DUTT SONEKAR VAIDDYAIndependent · IND1,0120.2%
- 14HANUMANIndependent · IND9590.2%
- 15SHANTI DEVI SANKHWARIndependent · IND9370.2%
- 16RAM KHELAWAN SONEKARIndependent · IND9070.2%
- 17MEERA SANKHWARIndependent · IND5220.1%
- 18SAIYADEEN PRADHANALD · ALD5150.1%
- 19MUNNILALIndependent · IND5000.1%
- 20LALIT KUMARIndependent · IND4240.1%
- 21GIRJA SHANKERIndependent · IND3820.1%
- 22SHIV KUMARIndependent · IND2820.1%
- 23RAM KUMAR SANKHWARIndependent · IND2560.1%
- 24AMAR NATHABRS · ABRS930.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BSP swing
- −6.4%
- BJP share
- 22.4% → 33.2%
- BSP share
- 13.5% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- 46.5% → 40.8%