Constituency
448. Balrampur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BALRAMPUR
SP 46.4%won by 8.5%BJP 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Samajwadi Party (SP), which now leads by 8.5%.
- SP vote shareSP went from 20.5% to 46.4% of the vote here (+25.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.2% of the vote between them, up from 51.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 11.9% to 58.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,52,311
Turnout
58.6%
Valid votes
6,74,769
Margin
57,259
8.49%
Candidates
13 contested · winner SP- 1RIZWAN ZAHEER KHAN ALIAS RIZOO BHAIYASamajwadi Party · SP3,12,83146.4%
- 2SATYA DEO SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,55,57237.9%
- 3ASHFAQ AHMADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP56,1248.3%
- 4CHANDRA BHAL MANI TIWARIIndian National Congress · INC21,7113.2%
- 5SUJAYAT AHMADIndependent · IND8,8261.3%
- 6KIMOOTI RAJ SINGHIndependent · IND8,3571.2%
- 7MOHD. LAEEQUEIndependent · IND5,2280.8%
- 8OM PRAKASH SINGHIndependent · IND2,2470.3%
- 9SHREE PATI LALIndependent · IND1,2400.2%
- 10PRATAP SINGHIndependent · IND1,1550.2%
- 11SANDEEP KUMARIndependent · IND8980.1%
- 12MOHD. KHALEELIndependent · IND4110.1%
- 13DHEERENDRA PRATAP SINGHIndependent · IND1690.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- SPflipped
- SP–BJP swing
- +19.3%
- SP share
- 20.5% → 46.4%
- BJP share
- 31.3% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- 46.7% → 58.6%