Constituency
444. Faizabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-FAIZABAD
SP 38.4%won by 1.2%BJP 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Samajwadi Party (SP), which now leads by 1.2%.
- SP vote shareSP went from 33.9% to 38.4% of the vote here (+4.5%).
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.1% to 53.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,33,835
Turnout
53.4%
Valid votes
6,59,099
Margin
7,737
1.17%
Candidates
12 contested · winner SP- 1MITRASEN YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP2,53,33138.4%
- 2VINAY KATIYARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,45,59437.3%
- 3RAM NIHAL NISHADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,27,94019.4%
- 4HARI SHANKER MAURYA SARIWALAApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD16,0982.4%
- 5JAMUNA SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI7,4061.1%
- 6DEENA NATH ALIAS DEEN BANDHU DASBKKGP · BKKGP1,7170.3%
- 7ANIL KUMARIndependent · IND1,5930.2%
- 8AJAI KUMAR BHARTIIndependent · IND1,4540.2%
- 9PANNA LAL PASWANIndependent · IND1,2350.2%
- 10MOTI LALIndependent · IND1,1540.2%
- 11AMARNATH JAISWALNew Labour Party · NLP8410.1%
- 12KRIPA SHANKERABP · ABP7360.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- SPflipped
- SP–BJP swing
- +5.8%
- SP share
- 33.9% → 38.4%
- BJP share
- 38.6% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- 47.3% → 53.4%