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450. Basti

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Uttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-BASTI

BJP 39.8%won by 11.4%SP 28.4%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.4% to 11.4%.

  • TurnoutTurnout rose 6.2% to 52.3%.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
11,73,334
Turnout
52.3%
Valid votes
6,13,593
Margin
70,217
11.44%

Candidates

8 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1SHRI RAM CHAUHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,44,23339.8%
  2. 2KALP NATH SONKARSamajwadi Party · SP1,74,01628.4%
  3. 3LAL MANI PRASADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,43,04023.3%
  4. 4RAM JIYAWANIndian National Congress · INC39,1566.4%
  5. 5INDRA JEETNew Labour Party · NLP6,2961.0%
  6. 6RAM LAGAN KANNAUJIAApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD4,7780.8%
  7. 7BHAGWAN DASIndependent · IND1,1010.2%
  8. 8HARI RAMIndependent · IND9730.2%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–SP swing
+2.1%
BJP share
37.5% → 39.8%
SP share
28.2% → 28.4%
Turnout
46.1% → 52.3%
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