Constituency
477. Basti
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-BASTI
BSP 34.7%won by 13.6%SP 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedBahujan Samaj Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.4% to 13.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Samajwadi Party (SP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 55.8% of the vote between them, up from 49.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 8.6% to 49.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
15,70,657
Turnout
49.3%
Valid votes
7,73,779
Margin
1,05,210
13.60%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BSP- 1ARVIND KUMAR CHAUDHARYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,68,66634.7%
- 2RAJ KISHOR SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP1,63,45621.1%
- 3DR. Y. D. SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,17,25915.2%
- 4BASANT CHAUDHARYIndian National Congress · INC95,23512.3%
- 5DAYASHANKAR PATWAPECP · PECP67,9878.8%
- 6VINOD KUMAR RAJBHARSuheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party · SBSP12,7751.7%
- 7SATISH CHANDRA SHARMAIndependent · IND11,4301.5%
- 8DALBAG SINGHBSPK · BSPK10,7181.4%
- 9SATYADEV OJHAIndependent · IND6,0170.8%
- 10RAM NAYAN PATELApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD3,4780.4%
- 11SHIV POOJAN ARYAIndependent · IND3,3830.4%
- 12SANJEEV KUMAR NISHADBUM · BUM3,1230.4%
- 13OM PRAKASHVAJP · VAJP3,0910.4%
- 14RAM LALAN YADAVIndependent · IND2,9250.4%
- 15SITARAM NISHADJPS · JPS2,3130.3%
- 16SHIVDASSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD1,9230.2%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- BSP
- BSP–SP swing
- +8.8%
- BSP share
- 26.9% → 34.7%
- SP share
- 22.2% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- 40.7% → 49.3%