Constituency
426. Budaun
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BUDAUN
SP 41.8%won by 6.3%BJP 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedSamajwadi Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.6% to 6.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.4% of the vote between them, up from 66.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 8.9% to 57.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,08,600
Turnout
57.0%
Valid votes
6,32,498
Margin
39,658
6.27%
Candidates
8 contested · winner SP- 1SALEEM IQBAL SHERVANISamajwadi Party · SP2,64,58341.8%
- 2SHANTI DEVI SHAKYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,24,92535.6%
- 3BRIJ PAL SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,04,71816.6%
- 4SHREEPAL SINGH YADAVJanata Dal · JD14,8702.4%
- 5CHANDRAPALIndependent · IND11,9891.9%
- 6OMKAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC9,5321.5%
- 7NARENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND1,2560.2%
- 8MOTI RAMIndependent · IND6250.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- SP
- SP–BJP swing
- −7.4%
- SP share
- 37.5% → 41.8%
- BJP share
- 23.9% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- 48.1% → 57.0%