Constituency
435. Hardoi
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-HARDOI
SP 36.8%won by 2.7%BJP 34.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Samajwadi Party (SP), which now leads by 2.7%.
- SP vote shareSP went from 26.3% to 36.8% of the vote here (+10.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 70.9% of the vote between them, up from 65.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 14.6% to 51.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,86,533
Turnout
51.7%
Valid votes
5,61,324
Margin
15,426
2.75%
Candidates
9 contested · winner SP- 1USHA VARMASamajwadi Party · SP2,06,63436.8%
- 2JAI PRAKASHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,91,20834.1%
- 3SHYAM PRAKASHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,43,83425.6%
- 4RAMESHWAR PRASADIndian National Congress · INC13,7212.4%
- 5UMESH CHANDRAIndependent · IND1,8910.3%
- 6DURGA PRASADIndependent · IND1,7990.3%
- 7RAJESHWARIIndependent · IND8810.2%
- 8RAM LAL VERMAIndependent · IND8450.2%
- 9PURAN LALIndependent · IND5110.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- SPflipped
- SP–BJP swing
- +11.9%
- SP share
- 26.3% → 36.8%
- BJP share
- 35.4% → 34.1%
- Turnout
- 37.0% → 51.7%