Constituency
461. Azamgarh
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-AZAMGARH
BSP 37.8%won by 0.8%SP 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Party (SP) lost it to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which now leads by 0.8%.
- BSP vote shareBSP went from 24.0% to 37.8% of the vote here (+13.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.9% of the vote between them, up from 51.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.2% to 54.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,08,030
Turnout
54.5%
Valid votes
6,58,269
Margin
5,365
0.82%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BSP- 1AKBAR AHMAD DAMPYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,49,06537.8%
- 2RAMAKANT YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP2,43,70037.0%
- 3YASHWANTBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,24,59418.9%
- 4RAM NARESH YADAVIndian National Congress · INC22,4983.4%
- 5RAJUIndependent · IND4,6330.7%
- 6NUMANNew Labour Party · NLP3,1890.5%
- 7KUNDANIndependent · IND2,7220.4%
- 8RAGHUPATIIndependent · IND2,5560.4%
- 9SITARAMIndependent · IND1,8480.3%
- 10VINODIndependent · IND1,7660.3%
- 11RAMKEWALIndependent · IND1,0700.2%
- 12RAJENRAAJBP · AJBP6280.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- BSPflipped
- BSP–SP swing
- +4.6%
- BSP share
- 24.0% → 37.8%
- SP share
- 27.8% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- 48.3% → 54.5%