Constituency
489. Agra
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-AGRA
BJP 37.0%won by 7.5%IND 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.7% to 7.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 29.5% — it polled just 1.6% in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.5% between them, down from 72.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.6% to 53.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,24,534
Turnout
53.1%
Valid votes
6,49,941
Margin
48,423
7.45%
Candidates
24 contested · winner BJP- 1BHAGWAN SHANKAR RAWATBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,40,17237.0%
- 2RAMESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,91,74929.5%
- 3KISHAN LAL BAGHELBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,66,24125.6%
- 4AGRAWAL MOHAN LAL ADVOCATEIndian National Congress · INC29,0614.5%
- 5OMVIRApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD4,5590.7%
- 6BABUIndependent · IND2,6900.4%
- 7MRITUNJAYA MISHRAIndependent · IND2,6320.4%
- 8RANVIR SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP2,5130.4%
- 9SANJEEV KUMARLok Shakti · LS2,3780.4%
- 10SHAMMIIndependent · IND1,3100.2%
- 11SHAUKEENRAM · RAM9400.1%
- 12SUNIL KUMAR AGARWALIndependent · IND7760.1%
- 13KISHAN LALAJBP · AJBP7350.1%
- 14VINOD KUMAR GUPTAIndependent · IND6920.1%
- 15VINOD KUMAR SINGHSHSP · SHSP6100.1%
- 16KISHAN BABUIndependent · IND4920.1%
- 17RADHEY MOHANIndependent · IND4760.1%
- 18V. LALHKMP · HKMP3520.1%
- 19BASANT KUMARIndependent · IND3310.1%
- 20SHYAM BABUIndependent · IND2990.0%
- 21HASNURAM AMBEDKARIIndependent · IND2760.0%
- 22SUREKHA YADAVIndependent · IND2290.0%
- 23AJAY SINGHIndependent · IND2160.0%
- 24YAD RAMIndependent · IND2120.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −35.3%
- BJP share
- 44.3% → 37.0%
- IND share
- 1.6% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- 42.5% → 53.1%