Constituency
472. Allahabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-ALLAHABAD
BJP 33.8%won by 10.8%SP 22.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.5% to 10.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.7% between them, down from 72.9% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
14,10,588
Turnout
46.0%
Valid votes
6,48,516
Margin
70,331
10.84%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1Dr. Murli Manohar JoshiBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,19,11433.8%
- 2Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh Alias ManijiSamajwadi Party · SP1,48,78322.9%
- 3Dr. Reeta Bahuguna JoshiIndian National Congress · INC1,33,42820.6%
- 4Ram Dular Singh PatelBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,09,38316.9%
- 5Ram Prakash Singh PatelApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD15,2312.3%
- 6C.P. SrivastavaIndependent · IND10,4861.6%
- 7Shiv Dutt ShuklaIndependent · IND4,0020.6%
- 8Mithai Lal SonkarIndependent · IND3,1660.5%
- 9Karn SinghIndependent · IND2,5190.4%
- 10Neboo LalIndependent · IND2,4040.4%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–SP swing
- +4.4%
- BJP share
- 39.7% → 33.8%
- SP share
- 33.2% → 22.9%
- Turnout
- 47.4% → 46.0%