1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Uttar Pradesh in 1996. The Bharatiya Janata Party remained the largest party, winning 174 of the 425 seats.
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Turnout | 55.73% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Result
Party | Contested | Won | Votes | % | Seats change | |
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Bharatiya Janata Party | 414 | 174 | 18,028,820 | 32.5% | 3 | |
Samajwadi Party | 281 | 110 | 12,085,226 | 21.8% | 1 | |
Bahujan Samaj Party | 296 | 67 | 10,890,716 | 19.6% | ||
Indian National Congress | 126 | 33 | 4,626,663 | 8.3% | 5 | |
Independent | 2031 | 13 | 3,615,932 | 6.5% | 5 | |
Bharatiya Kisan Kamgar Party | 38 | 8 | 1,065,730 | 1.9% | 8 (new) | |
Janata Dal | 54 | 7 | 1,421,528 | 2.6% | 20 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 11 | 4 | 1,421,528 | 0.8% | 3 | |
All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) | 37 | 4 | 735,327 | 1.3% | 4 (new) | |
Samta Party | 9 | 2 | 221,866 | 0.4% | 2 (new) | |
Communist Party of India | 15 | 1 | 327,231 | 0.6% | 2 | |
Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | 77 | 1 | 325,787 | 0.6% | 1 (new) |
References
- http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/1996-election-results.html
- http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-UP96.pdf