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461. Azamgarh

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Uttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-AZAMGARH

SP 34.9%won by 4.1%BSP 30.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lost it to Samajwadi Party (SP), which now leads by 4.1%.

  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.6% between them, down from 74.9% — the field split more ways.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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

Electorate
12,15,261
Turnout
53.7%
Valid votes
6,52,880
Margin
26,979
4.13%

Candidates

15 contested · winner SP
  1. 1Rama Kant YadavSamajwadi Party · SP2,27,61634.9%
  2. 2Akbar Ahmad DumpyBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,00,63730.7%
  3. 3Ram SuratBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,61,87824.8%
  4. 4ChandrajeetIndian National Congress · INC36,4345.6%
  5. 5IsrarIndependent · IND6,6011.0%
  6. 6RamdularApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD5,8920.9%
  7. 7Pankaj Kumar PandeyNew Labour Party · NLP3,5410.5%
  8. 8DharmanathBRPP · BRPP2,5810.4%
  9. 9Dan BahadurIndependent · IND1,7220.3%
  10. 10MotiIndependent · IND1,5410.2%
  11. 11AshokIndependent · IND1,3670.2%
  12. 12HanifIndependent · IND1,0600.2%
  13. 13JavedMUL · MUL8070.1%
  14. 14RajendraAJBP · AJBP7540.1%
  15. 15Ram AshishIndependent · IND4490.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BSP
Winner now
SPflipped
SP–BSP swing
+4.9%
SP share
37.0% → 34.9%
BSP share
37.8% → 30.7%
Turnout
54.5% → 53.7%
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