BJP ruled on division of votes in Gorakhpur-Basti area
The division of votes between the Bahujan Samaj
Party and Samajwadi Party enabled the Bharatiya Janata Party
to win eight of the nine parliamentary seats in Gorakhpur and
Basti divisions in the general election.
The SP managed to wrest only the Deoria seat from
the BJP in this belt.
According to figures available at the election office, the BJP
polled lesser votes than the combined votes polled by the BSP and SP in almost all the constituencies. The presence of the Janata Dal candidate, a partner in the
United Front, aided the BJP candidate's victory.
The Congress, with its decimal show in both divisions, also
helped the BJP to sweep the region.
In Gorakhpur, BJP candidate Adityanath
polled 268,428 votes while the BSP and the SP combined polled
327,504 votes. The Congress candidate got 22,561 votes. For the
Bansgaon (reserved) seat, Raj Narayan Paswan polled 217,433 votes
but on the other hand, the BSP and SP unitedly polled 335,592 votes.
In Deoria, however, the BJP lost to SP candidate Mohan Singh by 4,068 votes, polling 255,736 votes.
In Maharajganj, the division of votes among the BSP, JD and SP, which
collectively polled 385,849 votes, helped BJP nominee and sitting MP
Pankaj Chowdhary win by 233,361 votes.
In Padrauna, though BJP candidate
Ram Nagina Mishra polled 256,695 votes; Baleshwar Yadav (SP) and
Ravi Prakash (BSP) together polled 337,754 votes. The JD secured 10,338 votes.
In Khailabad, the presence of BSP, JD and SP candidates assured the BJP of an easy win. All three candidates combined collected 484,132 votes, while the BJP candidate won the seat, polling only 197,149 votes.
In Basti, the BJP secured 244,223 votes against
BSP and SP candidates who collectively polled 317,054 votes.
Likewise, in Dumariaganj, the BJP got
250,569 votes against the SP and the BSP candidates who collected
338,200 votes.
In 1996, the BJP managed five seats,
the SP three, and the JD one, in this region. This time the
SP could manage only the Deoria seat. The SP lost its
Bansgaon and Salempur seats while the JD lost its Khalilabad seat.
The Congress lost its deposits in all nine seats.
UNI
Elections '98
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