Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Nighasan

Assembly constituency 138 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Shashank Verma · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

15.1pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

41,009votes

17.5 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

68.8%

Seat median 64.3% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 21.0 pp

2002
8.5 pp
Shiv Pratap Alias Dr. Shiv Pratap YadavSamajwadi Partyby 11,695 votes
2007
5.1 pp
AlauddinBahujan Samaj Partyby 6,437 votes
2012
15.1 pp
AjayBharatiya Janata Partyby 31,039 votes
2017
21.0 pp
Patel Ramkumar VermaBharatiya Janata Partyby 46,123 votes
2022
17.5 pp
Shashank VermaBharatiya Janata Partyby 41,009 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 26 parties and independents

BJP 3 of 560% won · 1 second BSP 1 of 520% won SP 1 of 520% won · 4 second IND 0 of 210% won INC 0 of 40% won AAP 0 of 10% won AIMF 0 of 10% won AITC 0 of 10% 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 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 SP → 2007 BSP → 2012 BJP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2007 at 5.1 pp; the widest 2017 at 21.0 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 17.5 pp was 2.4 pp above the seat's median of 15.1 pp.
17.5 − 15.1 = +2.4
Turnout moved from 60.6% in 2002 to 68.8% in 2022, +8.2 pp.
68.8 − 60.6 = +8.2

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 64.3%

2002 60.6%

2007 48.1%

2012 64.3%

2017 67.0%

2022 68.8%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Nighasan, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Shashank Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	41,009	17.5	68.8
2017	Patel Ramkumar Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	46,123	21.0	67.0
2012	Ajay	Bharatiya Janata Party	31,039	15.1	64.3
2007	Alauddin	Bahujan Samaj Party	6,437	5.1	48.1
2002	Shiv Pratap Alias Dr. Shiv Pratap Yadav	Samajwadi Party	11,695	8.5	60.6

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 46,123 votes

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