Constituency
418. Garhwal
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-GARHWAL
BJP 50.8%won by 6.3%INC 44.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.6% to 6.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from AIICS (AIICS) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.3% of the vote between them, up from 76.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.9% to 45.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,36,876
Turnout
45.5%
Valid votes
4,72,181
Margin
29,682
6.29%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1Maj Gen. (Rtd) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri(A.V.S.M.)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,39,74550.8%
- 2Satpal MaharajIndian National Congress · INC2,10,06344.5%
- 3Chandra ShekharBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,7511.4%
- 4Manmohan Singh RawatSamajwadi Party · SP3,8340.8%
- 5Ratanvir TyagiIndependent · IND3,7740.8%
- 6LaxmiIndependent · IND2,7590.6%
- 7Jagdish NegiUKKD · UKKD2,4330.5%
- 8Satpal Singh RawatIndependent · IND2,0720.4%
- 9SaleemIndependent · IND5730.1%
- 10Tarunendu BajpaiIndependent · IND1770.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −36.5%
- BJP share
- 55.4% → 50.8%
- INC share
- 12.6% → 44.5%
- Turnout
- 50.5% → 45.5%