Constituency
483. Kannauj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-KANNAUJ
SP 42.1%won by 6.1%BJP 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Samajwadi Party (SP), which now leads by 6.1%.
- SP vote shareSP went from 28.2% to 42.1% of the vote here (+13.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.1% of the vote between them, up from 65.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 9.5% to 60.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,55,629
Turnout
60.5%
Valid votes
6,98,700
Margin
42,504
6.08%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SP- 1PRADEEP KUMAR YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP2,94,06542.1%
- 2CHANDRABHOO SHAN SINGH (MUNNU BABU)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,51,56136.0%
- 3BHAGWAN DEEN KUSHWAHABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,33,10619.1%
- 4PRATIMA CHATURWEDIIndian National Congress · INC17,1442.5%
- 5DR. PREM CHANDRA DIXITIndependent · IND2,8240.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- SPflipped
- SP–BJP swing
- +15.5%
- SP share
- 28.2% → 42.1%
- BJP share
- 37.7% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- 51.0% → 60.5%