Constituency
455. Maharajganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-MAHARAJGANJ
SP 35.4%won by 1.6%BJP 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP) lost it to Samajwadi Party (SP), which now leads by 1.6%.
- SP vote shareSP went from 0.0% to 35.4% of the vote here (+35.4%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 33.8% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.3% between them, down from 77.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 7.7% to 59.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,29,627
Turnout
59.9%
Valid votes
6,77,114
Margin
10,644
1.57%
Candidates
11 contested · winner SP- 1Akhilesh SinghSamajwadi Party · SP2,39,82635.4%
- 2Pankaj ChaudharyBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,29,18233.8%
- 3Talat AzizBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,71,40825.3%
- 4Jitnedra SinghIndian National Congress · INC24,5163.6%
- 5Panna LalIndependent · IND3,0410.4%
- 6Lorik ChamarIndependent · IND2,7950.4%
- 7Abdurrauf AnsariNew Labour Party · NLP2,5270.4%
- 8Kapile MuneIndependent · IND1,9890.3%
- 9NagendraAJBP · AJBP8080.1%
- 10SureshIndependent · IND5640.1%
- 11Mohd Jubed KhanIndependent · IND4580.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- SAP
- Winner now
- SPflipped
- SP–BJP swing
- +1.6%
- SP share
- 0.0% → 35.4%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- 67.6% → 59.9%