Constituency
472. Allahabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-ALLAHABAD
BJP 39.7%won by 6.5%SP 33.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.4% to 6.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 33.2% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.9% of the vote between them, up from 65.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.9% to 47.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,09,229
Turnout
47.4%
Valid votes
6,68,083
Margin
43,290
6.48%
Candidates
21 contested · winner BJP- 1DR. MURLI MANOHAR JOSHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,65,23239.7%
- 2SHAYAMA CHARAN GUPTASamajwadi Party · SP2,21,94233.2%
- 3DR. K.P. SRIVASTAVABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,14,17917.1%
- 4DAL BAHADUR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC29,0924.4%
- 5DR. KAILASH NATH SINGH PATELApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD22,2103.3%
- 6BRIJESH KUMARIndependent · IND2,7940.4%
- 7MOHAMMAD AHMADJanata Dal · JD1,9490.3%
- 8PHOOL CHANDIndependent · IND1,8490.3%
- 9SHOBH NATHIndependent · IND1,3690.2%
- 10KAMICHCHHA PRASADABJS · ABJS1,1660.2%
- 11JEET LAL YADAVALD · ALD1,1370.2%
- 12RAJENDRA PRATAP SINGHIndependent · IND9230.1%
- 13SUDAMAIndependent · IND6360.1%
- 14SHANKER LAL KUSHWAHAIndependent · IND6060.1%
- 15K.P. MISRAAJBP · AJBP5770.1%
- 16RAJIT RAM MISHRAIndependent · IND5410.1%
- 17AJAY SINGHIndependent · IND5390.1%
- 18PT. RAJESHWAR PRASAD TIWARIIndependent · IND5220.1%
- 19SAHID KAMAL ABBAS ALIAS SHAHID MAJDOONRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3170.0%
- 20KAMLESH KUMARIndependent · IND3140.0%
- 21AMAR CHANDRA JAISWALIndependent · IND1890.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–SP swing
- −36.2%
- BJP share
- 42.7% → 39.7%
- SP share
- 0.0% → 33.2%
- Turnout
- 36.5% → 47.4%