Constituency
474. Fatehpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-FATEHPUR
BJP 39.6%won by 7.9%BSP 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 7.9%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 27.6% to 39.6% of the vote here (+12.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.2% of the vote between them, up from 60.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 15.4% to 50.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,52,768
Turnout
50.9%
Valid votes
5,86,680
Margin
46,436
7.92%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1ASHOK KUMAR PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,32,13139.6%
- 2VISHAMBHAR PRASAD NISHADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,85,69531.7%
- 3DEVENDRA PRATAP SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP1,23,66221.1%
- 4VIBHAKAR SHASTRIIndian National Congress · INC24,6884.2%
- 5RAM KRIPAL PRAJPATIApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD12,3132.1%
- 6KRISHNA KUMAR MISRA URF K.K. MISRAJanata Dal · JD5,5630.9%
- 7JAG LALIndependent · IND1,6310.3%
- 8VISHNU DUTT DUBEYAJBP · AJBP9970.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BSP swing
- +13.7%
- BJP share
- 27.6% → 39.6%
- BSP share
- 33.4% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- 35.5% → 50.9%