Constituency
458. Salempur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-SALEMPUR
SAP 35.1%won by 6.2%SP 28.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Party (SP) lost it to Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP), which now leads by 6.2%.
- SAP vote shareSAP went from 23.8% to 35.1% of the vote here (+11.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 63.9% of the vote between them, up from 54.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 9.0% to 49.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,64,615
Turnout
49.5%
Valid votes
6,25,513
Margin
39,021
6.24%
Candidates
11 contested · winner SAP- 1HARI KEWAL PRASADSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2,19,45035.1%
- 2HARI BANSH SAHAISamajwadi Party · SP1,80,42928.8%
- 3SURESH YADAWBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,31,30021.0%
- 4KAMESHWAR UPADHAYAYIndian National Congress · INC64,79210.4%
- 5SRI RAM CHAUDHARICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7,0321.1%
- 6RAMASHRAY CHAUHANApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD5,7430.9%
- 7SUBEDAR SINGHIndependent · IND5,2050.8%
- 8AJAI YADAWJanata Dal · JD4,2580.7%
- 9LALU RAM MIRDHAIndependent · IND3,9540.6%
- 10GORAKH PRASAD PATELPSSS · PSSS2,1110.3%
- 11ANIRUDDHIndependent · IND1,2390.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- SAPflipped
- SAP–SP swing
- +13.3%
- SAP share
- 23.8% → 35.1%
- SP share
- 30.8% → 28.8%
- Turnout
- 40.5% → 49.5%