Constituency
497. Baghpat
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BAGHPAT
BJP 37.0%won by 6.2%BKKGP 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 6.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 14.2% to 37.0% of the vote here (+22.8%).
- New challengerBKKGP (BKKGP) finished second with 30.7% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.7% between them, down from 75.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.0% to 55.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,00,891
Turnout
55.0%
Valid votes
7,15,585
Margin
44,706
6.25%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1SOMPALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,64,73637.0%
- 2AJIT SINGHBKKGP · BKKGP2,20,03030.7%
- 3MAIRAJUDDINSamajwadi Party · SP1,34,69618.8%
- 4AJAYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP79,15311.1%
- 5SURENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND4,6590.7%
- 6ROOP CHANDShiv Sena · SHS3,5410.5%
- 7AHSANANew Labour Party · NLP2,5790.4%
- 8JEET SINGHIndependent · IND1,7390.2%
- 9RAJPAL ALIAS RAJPAL VERMAIndependent · IND1,6370.2%
- 10ASHOK KUMARIndependent · IND8370.1%
- 11MOHD. MAHTABRAS · RAS8330.1%
- 12SHYAM MOHAN GUPTA.Independent · IND7700.1%
- 13HARLALIndependent · IND3750.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BKKGP swing
- −7.9%
- BJP share
- 14.2% → 37.0%
- BKKGP share
- 0.0% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- 52.0% → 55.0%