Constituency
423. Moradabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-MORADABAD
SP 39.5%won by 5.0%BJP 34.5%
What changed here
DerivedSamajwadi Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.3% to 5.0%.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.3% to 64.0%.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,45,086
Turnout
64.0%
Valid votes
7,32,431
Margin
36,481
4.98%
Candidates
12 contested · winner SP- 1DR. SHAFIQUR RAHMAN BARQSamajwadi Party · SP2,89,48439.5%
- 2VIJAY BANSALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,53,00334.5%
- 3RAJA RAM SAINIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,36,08118.6%
- 4HAFIZ MOH. SIDDIQIIndian National Congress · INC35,5524.9%
- 5WAJID HUSSAINRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD10,1321.4%
- 6MOBINIndependent · IND2,0750.3%
- 7SANJAY KUMARGSP · GSP2,0090.3%
- 8MAHIPAL SINGHIndependent · IND1,6190.2%
- 9JIMMI URF JAMUNA SAINIIndependent · IND6890.1%
- 10RAJKUMAR JATAVIndependent · IND6600.1%
- 11SANJAY TANDONIndependent · IND6070.1%
- 12AURANG ZEBIndependent · IND5200.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- SP
- SP–BJP swing
- +4.7%
- SP share
- 38.1% → 39.5%
- BJP share
- 37.8% → 34.5%
- Turnout
- 56.6% → 64.0%