Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2022

Balrampur

Assembly constituency 294 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

[01]Result · 2022

#294 · SC

Poll date10 Feb 2022

Contestants12

Electors4,29,950

Votes polled2,04,355

Turnout47.5%

NOTA2,3650.6% of votes

WinnerPaltoo RamBharatiya Janata Party1,01,14649.5% of votes

MARGIN10,971 votes · 5.4 pp1,01,146 − 90,175

Runner-upJagram Paswan Samajwadi Party90,17544.1% of votes

BJP 52.9% of top-two votesSP 47.1%

All candidates 12

01 Paltoo RamBJP1,01,146 49.5%
02 Jagram PaswanSP90,175 44.1%
03 Hari RamBSP5,371 2.6%
04 BabitaINC2,576 1.3%
05 Ravindra KumarIND1,095 0.5%
06 Jay MangalIND721 0.4%
07 Lal JiASP(KR)717 0.4%
08 Madan LalPECP706 0.4%
09 HariramBSS686 0.3%
10 Uday ChandAAP408 0.2%
11 Santosh KumariIJP378 0.2%
12 Uma DeviBMP376 0.2%

Turnout 47.5%

Male 2.33 lakh54.1% Female 1.95 lakh45.4%

Share of 4,29,950 electors

Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 males840
NOTAreported alongside the total2,365 · 0.6%
State median turnoutmedian of 403 seats, 202260.3%
ReconciliationΣ 12 candidates = 2,04,355Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
6.4 pp
Ram Prakash TripathiBharatiya Janata Party
2007
3.5 pp
Arvind SinghSamajwadi Party
2012
11.2 pp
Jagram PaswanSamajwadi Party
2017
13.1 pp
PalturamBharatiya Janata Party
2022
5.4 pp
Paltoo RamBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 13.1 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

The top two polled 93.6% of votes; the other 10 candidates 6.4% between them.
(1,01,146 + 90,175) ÷ 2,04,355 = 93.6% · 13,034 ÷ 2,04,355 = 6.4%
Turnout of 47.5% was 12.8 pp below the state's median seat (60.3%).
47.5 − 60.3 = −12.8
The margin narrowed from 13.1 pp in 2017 to 5.4 pp.
5.4 − 13.1 = −7.7 pp
BJP held the seat it won in 2017.
2017 BJP · 2022 BJP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 12 candidate lines2,04,355
NOTAreported alongside the total2,365
Published totalVotes polled2,04,355
Checkcandidates = total, NOTA outside itHolds

Candidate votes equal the published total. NOTA is reported alongside it.

Contest resultElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha 2022 · Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates12 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Verified

State median turnoutComputed from 403 seats on the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 2022 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database