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450. Basti

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Uttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-BASTI

BJP 29.8%won by 0.3%BSP 29.5%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.4% to 0.3%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.3% between them, down from 68.2% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 2.7% to 49.6%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
11,81,116
Turnout
49.6%
Valid votes
5,85,359
Margin
1,832
0.31%

Candidates

9 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Shriram ChauhanBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,74,37829.8%
  2. 2Lal Mani PrasadBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,72,54629.5%
  3. 3Kalpnath SonkarSamajwadi Party · SP1,44,22224.6%
  4. 4Ram JiyawanIndian National Congress · INC78,61813.4%
  5. 5Chandra Bali KanaujiaApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD8,8821.5%
  6. 6Sita RamIndependent · IND2,5510.4%
  7. 7Pawan KumarIndependent · IND1,6210.3%
  8. 8Arun Baboo Ram BhartiShiv Sena · SHS1,3530.2%
  9. 9Ram LautIndependent · IND1,1880.2%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–BSP swing
−16.2%
BJP share
39.8% → 29.8%
BSP share
23.3% → 29.5%
Turnout
52.3% → 49.6%
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