Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Meerganj

Assembly constituency 119 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Dr. D. C. Verma · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

6.4pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

32,480votes

14.3 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

66.8%

Seat median 64.2% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 26.1 pp

2002
5.1 pp
Sita Ram NishadSamajwadi Partyby 6,923 votes
2007
6.4 pp
Jitendra Kumar Bablu BhaiyaBahujan Samaj Partyby 10,223 votes
2012
4.3 pp
Sultan BaigBahujan Samaj Partyby 7,921 votes
2017
26.1 pp
Dr. D.C. VermaBharatiya Janata Partyby 54,500 votes
2022
14.3 pp
Dr. D. C. VermaBharatiya Janata Partyby 32,480 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 23 parties and independents

BSP 2 of 540% won · 2 second BJP 2 of 450% won · 1 second SP 1 of 425% won · 2 second IND 0 of 180% won INC 0 of 50% won AD 0 of 20% won RLD 0 of 20% won AAP 0 of 10% won

Won of candidatures, counted from the published candidate lines; independents are counted together.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BJP and BSP won 2 each of 5 contests on record.
wins by party: BJP 2 · BSP 2 · SP 1
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 SP → 2007 BSP → 2012 BSP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2012 at 4.3 pp; the widest 2017 at 26.1 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 14.3 pp was 7.9 pp above the seat's median of 6.4 pp.
14.3 − 6.4 = +7.9
Turnout moved from 55.5% in 2002 to 66.8% in 2022, +11.3 pp.
66.8 − 55.5 = +11.3
The name Dr. D. C. Verma appears as winner in 2 contests: 2017 and 2022.
winner names matched across years, ignoring spacing and punctuation

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 64.2%

2002 55.5%

2007 55.4%

2012 66.4%

2017 64.2%

2022 66.8%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Meerganj, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Dr. D. C. Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	32,480	14.3	66.8
2017	Dr. D.C. Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	54,500	26.1	64.2
2012	Sultan Baig	Bahujan Samaj Party	7,921	4.3	66.4
2007	Jitendra Kumar Bablu Bhaiya	Bahujan Samaj Party	10,223	6.4	55.4
2002	Sita Ram Nishad	Samajwadi Party	6,923	5.1	55.5

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 54,500 votes

ContestsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Meerganj, Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Party recordCounted from the published candidate lines for this seat · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Medians and countsComputed from the contests on this page when the page was built