Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Puranpur

Assembly constituency 129 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Baburam · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

10.0pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

26,576votes

10.0 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

69.1%

Seat median 66.0% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 16.0 pp

2002
8.7 pp
Raj Laxmi VermaBharatiya Janata Partyby 11,087 votes
2007
2.1 pp
Amresh KumarBahujan Samaj Partyby 2,556 votes
2012
13.8 pp
Peetam RamSamajwadi Partyby 30,838 votes
2017
16.0 pp
Babu Ram PaswanBharatiya Janata Partyby 39,242 votes
2022
10.0 pp
BaburamBharatiya Janata Partyby 26,576 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 31 parties and independents

BJP 3 of 560% won · 1 second BSP 1 of 520% won · 1 second SP 1 of 520% won · 3 second IND 0 of 240% won INC 0 of 40% won BSS 0 of 20% won CPI(ML)L 0 of 20% won NLP 0 of 20% won

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

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BJP won 3 of 5 contests on record (60.0%).
wins by party: BJP 3 · BSP 1 · SP 1 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 3 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BJP → 2007 BSP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2007 at 2.1 pp; the widest 2017 at 16.0 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 10.0 pp equals the seat's median.
10.0 − 10.0 = 0.0
Turnout moved from 60.3% in 2002 to 69.1% in 2022, +8.8 pp.
69.1 − 60.3 = +8.8

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 66.0%

2002 60.3%

2007 50.0%

2012 66.0%

2017 66.2%

2022 69.1%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Puranpur, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Baburam	Bharatiya Janata Party	26,576	10.0	69.1
2017	Babu Ram Paswan	Bharatiya Janata Party	39,242	16.0	66.2
2012	Peetam Ram	Samajwadi Party	30,838	13.8	66.0
2007	Amresh Kumar	Bahujan Samaj Party	2,556	2.1	50.0
2002	Raj Laxmi Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	11,087	8.7	60.3

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 39,242 votes

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