Constituency
417. Tehri Garhwal
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-TEHRI-GARHWAL
BJP 51.8%won by 35.9%INC 15.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.2% to 35.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from AIICT (AIICT) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.7% of the vote between them, up from 58.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 20.8% to 44.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,44,780
Turnout
44.3%
Valid votes
5,06,653
Margin
1,82,092
35.94%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1MANABENDRA SHAHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,62,54551.8%
- 2HIRA SINGH BISHTIndian National Congress · INC80,45315.9%
- 3MUNNA CHAUHANSamajwadi Party · SP61,03412.0%
- 4NAV PRABHATBahujan Samaj Party · BSP42,3858.4%
- 5JAGMOHAN SAKLANIUKKD · UKKD30,6546.1%
- 6KAMALA RAM NAUTIYALCommunist Party of India · CPI14,5312.9%
- 7A.R. KHANNew Labour Party · NLP11,5602.3%
- 8RAO NASIM AHMEDIndependent · IND2,1020.4%
- 9DARSHAN LALAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM1,3890.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +16.6%
- BJP share
- 35.8% → 51.8%
- INC share
- 16.4% → 15.9%
- Turnout
- 23.5% → 44.3%