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Elections 98

State: Uttar Pradesh
Constituency: Akbarpur (SC)
Total Votes Polled: 758980
Winner: BSP Mayawati 263561
Runner Up: SP Dr.Lalita Prasad Kannoujiya 238382
Margin: 25179 (10%)


Elections 96

State: Uttar Pradesh
Constituency: Akbarpur (SC)
Total Votes Polled: 634392
Winner: BSP Ghanshyam Chandra Kharwar 199795
Runner Up: BJP Bechan Ram 175228
Margin: 24567 (3.94%)


Ram Awadh won the seat for the Janata Party in 1980, and promptly lost to the Rajiv wave in 1984. He won the seat back in 1989 for the JD, and retained it in 1991 as well. In 1996, he entered the fray as the Congress candidate and came sixth, winning 0.91 % of the vote. The winner was Ghanshyam Chandra Kharwar of the BSP, who defeated Bechan Ram of the BJP by 24,000 votes, making it the second time Ram was runner-up. Mayawati is the BSP candidate this time.

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