Constituency
420. Nainital
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-NAINITAL
BJP 38.5%won by 2.0%INC 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: AIICT (AIICT) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 2.0%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 19.7% to 38.5% of the vote here (+18.9%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.0% of the vote between them, up from 59.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,47,246
Turnout
56.4%
Valid votes
7,60,073
Margin
15,577
2.05%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1ILA PANTBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,92,76138.5%
- 2NARAYAN DATT TIWARIIndian National Congress · INC2,77,18436.5%
- 3NIRANJAN SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,02,83113.5%
- 4ABDUL RAOOF SIDDIQUESamajwadi Party · SP75,91210.0%
- 5RAJA BAHUGUNACpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,8180.4%
- 6NISHAN SINGHIndependent · IND2,1290.3%
- 7RAJA RAM SINGHIndependent · IND2,0370.3%
- 8M.S. RATHORIndependent · IND1,7370.2%
- 9REVA LALApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD1,6640.2%
- 10RAMSARAN ARYABVP · BVP5850.1%
- 11SURESH KUMARIndependent · IND4150.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- AIICT
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- −15.6%
- BJP share
- 19.7% → 38.5%
- INC share
- 2.0% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- 57.6% → 56.4%