Constituency
476. Hamirpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-HAMIRPUR
BJP 35.0%won by 3.1%SP 31.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 3.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 45.9% to 35.0% of the vote here (−10.9%).
- New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 31.9% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.9% between them, down from 94.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,41,426
Turnout
55.4%
Valid votes
5,76,455
Margin
18,137
3.15%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1GANGA CHARAN S/O RAM SWAROOPBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,01,81035.0%
- 2RAJNARAIN ALIAS RAJJU MAHARAJSamajwadi Party · SP1,83,67331.9%
- 3DHURAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,47,44825.6%
- 4YUGRAJIndian National Congress · INC29,3285.1%
- 5PHOOL SINGH KUSHWAHAApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD3,6030.6%
- 6BALADINIndependent · IND2,5060.4%
- 7GIRDHARI LALIndependent · IND2,0520.4%
- 8OM PRAKASHIndependent · IND1,8440.3%
- 9GANGA CHARAN S/O MAUJI LALBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD1,3440.2%
- 10RAFEEQIndependent · IND1,3400.2%
- 11PRADEEP KUMARAJBP · AJBP8970.2%
- 12HARGOVINDIndependent · IND6100.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–SP swing
- −42.8%
- BJP share
- 45.9% → 35.0%
- SP share
- 0.0% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- 57.2% → 55.4%