Constituency
478. Jalaun
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-JALAUN
BJP 38.4%won by 7.5%BSP 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.9% to 7.5%.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 12.1% to 52.7%.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,53,989
Turnout
52.7%
Valid votes
6,08,202
Margin
45,640
7.50%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1BHANU PRATAP SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,33,72738.4%
- 2MAN SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,88,08730.9%
- 3RAMADHINSamajwadi Party · SP1,47,46124.2%
- 4BENI BAIIndian National Congress · INC27,1654.5%
- 5GOVIND SINGHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD6,6821.1%
- 6KASHI RAMCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,7450.5%
- 7SHYAM LALIndependent · IND1,0460.2%
- 8MATA PRASADIndependent · IND9740.2%
- 9SANTOSH KUMAR ALIAS SATOSH KUMARIndependent · IND3150.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–BSP swing
- −2.4%
- BJP share
- 41.4% → 38.4%
- BSP share
- 31.4% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- 40.6% → 52.7%