Constituency
488. Firozabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-FIROZABAD
BJP 44.7%won by 6.8%SP 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.7% to 6.8%.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 11.4% to 51.8%.
- 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
11,36,685
Turnout
51.8%
Valid votes
5,89,132
Margin
39,950
6.78%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1PRABHU DAYAL KATHERIABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,63,26344.7%
- 2RAMJI LAL SUMANSamajwadi Party · SP2,23,31337.9%
- 3DEVA NAND GAUTAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP71,60312.2%
- 4HARPHOOL SINGHIndependent · IND10,0741.7%
- 5BACHCHU SINGHIndian National Congress · INC5,6421.0%
- 6SIYA RAMIndependent · IND5,3250.9%
- 7RAM BHAROSI LALIndependent · IND3,7980.6%
- 8NIHAL SINGHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD3,2610.6%
- 9RAMJI LALIndependent · IND1,6620.3%
- 10NARENDRA DIWAKARIndependent · IND4030.1%
- 11UMESH CHANDIndependent · IND3060.1%
- 12SIDDHARTHA KUMARIndependent · IND2760.0%
- 13HASNURAM AMBEDKARIIndependent · IND2060.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–SP swing
- −7.9%
- BJP share
- 46.2% → 44.7%
- SP share
- 31.6% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- 40.4% → 51.8%