Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Faridpur

Assembly constituency 122 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Prof. Shyam Bihari Lal · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

9.7pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

2,921votes

1.4 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

61.6%

Seat median 61.4% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 16.4 pp

2002
16.4 pp
Abbas Ali Zaidi Urf Rushdi MiyanSamajwadi Partyby 20,982 votes
2007
2.9 pp
Abbas Ali Zaidi Alias Rushdi MianSamajwadi Partyby 3,673 votes
2012
9.7 pp
Dr. Siaram SagarSamajwadi Partyby 16,787 votes
2017
13.1 pp
Dr. Shyam Bihari LalBharatiya Janata Partyby 24,721 votes
2022
1.4 pp
Prof. Shyam Bihari LalBharatiya Janata Partyby 2,921 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 26 parties and independents

SP 3 of 560% won · 2 second BJP 2 of 540% won · 1 second IND 0 of 210% won BSP 0 of 50% won · 2 second INC 0 of 40% won JSSP 0 of 20% won LKD 0 of 20% won PECP 0 of 20% won

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

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

SP won 3 of 5 contests on record (60.0%).
wins by party: SP 3 · BJP 2 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 1 time in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 SP → 2007 SP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2022 at 1.4 pp; the widest 2002 at 16.4 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 1.4 pp was 8.3 pp below the seat's median of 9.7 pp.
1.4 − 9.7 = −8.3
Turnout moved from 59.4% in 2002 to 61.6% in 2022, +2.2 pp.
61.6 − 59.4 = +2.2

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 61.4%

2002 59.4%

2007 50.8%

2012 64.7%

2017 61.4%

2022 61.6%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Faridpur, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Prof. Shyam Bihari Lal	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,921	1.4	61.6
2017	Dr. Shyam Bihari Lal	Bharatiya Janata Party	24,721	13.1	61.4
2012	Dr. Siaram Sagar	Samajwadi Party	16,787	9.7	64.7
2007	Abbas Ali Zaidi Alias Rushdi Mian	Samajwadi Party	3,673	2.9	50.8
2002	Abbas Ali Zaidi Urf Rushdi Miyan	Samajwadi Party	20,982	16.4	59.4

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 24,721 votes

ContestsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Faridpur, 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