Constituency
501. Hardwar
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-HARDWAR
BJP 35.5%won by 4.9%BSP 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.1% to 4.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.2% — 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 66.1% between them, down from 71.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.8% to 56.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,83,770
Turnout
56.3%
Valid votes
6,66,882
Margin
32,847
4.93%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1Harpal Singh SathiBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,36,84435.5%
- 2Ramesh Kumar BurmanBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,03,99730.6%
- 3Shishpal Alias S.P. Singh EngineerIndian National Congress · INC1,39,72421.0%
- 4Surendra Kumar RakeshSamajwadi Party · SP54,0918.1%
- 5Smt. Rekha BalmikiIndependent · IND8,6071.3%
- 6Sukhpal Singh BalmikiJSAP · JSAP5,5360.8%
- 7Amar SinghNew Labour Party · NLP4,8210.7%
- 8Rajbeer KoriIndependent · IND4,2500.6%
- 9Sadhu RamShiv Sena · SHS3,7270.6%
- 10Dr. Bhagwan DasLok Shakti · LS3,0230.5%
- 11SurendraIndependent · IND1,6030.2%
- 12Harpal SinghIndependent · IND6590.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–BSP swing
- −15.6%
- BJP share
- 44.7% → 35.5%
- BSP share
- 24.2% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- 61.2% → 56.3%