Constituency
484. Farrukhabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-FARRUKHABAD
BJP 31.7%won by 4.6%SP 27.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.6% to 4.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.9% between them, down from 64.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 9.8% to 57.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,27,779
Turnout
57.6%
Valid votes
7,07,589
Margin
32,211
4.55%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SWAMI SACHCHIANAND HARI SAKSHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,24,63631.7%
- 2ARVIND PRATAP SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP1,92,42527.2%
- 3SALMAN KHURSHEEDIndian National Congress · INC1,80,53125.5%
- 4PROF. SHAITAN SINGH SHAKYABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,06,61215.1%
- 5LAKHAN SINGH KATHERIYAIndependent · IND2,2320.3%
- 6HAMID HUSSAINIndependent · IND8720.1%
- 7VIDYA PRAKASH KUREELIndependent · IND2810.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–SP swing
- −10.1%
- BJP share
- 39.6% → 31.7%
- SP share
- 25.0% → 27.2%
- Turnout
- 47.8% → 57.6%