Constituency
455. Maharajganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-MAHARAJGANJ
BJP 35.9%won by 4.1%SP 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 4.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 0.0% to 35.9% of the vote here (+35.9%).
- New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 31.7% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.6% between them, down from 83.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,02,118
Turnout
59.1%
Valid votes
6,50,849
Margin
26,940
4.14%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1PANKAJ CHOUDHARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,33,36135.9%
- 2AKHILESH SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP2,06,42131.7%
- 3PREM SAGAR PATELBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,30,16620.0%
- 4HARSH VARDHANJanata Dal · JD49,2607.6%
- 5JITENDRA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC18,9622.9%
- 6ABID HUSAINIndependent · IND7,3081.1%
- 7RAMAGYAApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD4,0620.6%
- 8RAM KISHORIndependent · IND8720.1%
- 9RAM ROOPIndependent · IND4370.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- SAP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–SP swing
- +4.1%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 35.9%
- SP share
- 0.0% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- 60.8% → 59.1%