Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Biswan

Assembly constituency 149 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Nirmal Verma · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

3.8pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

10,478votes

4.5 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

69.4%

Seat median 68.0% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 4.5 pp

2002
1.0 pp
Raj Kishor SinghBahujan Samaj Partyby 1,426 votes
2007
3.6 pp
Raj Kishore SinghSamajwadi Partyby 5,145 votes
2012
3.8 pp
Rampal YadavSamajwadi Partyby 7,349 votes
2017
4.5 pp
Mahendra SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 10,235 votes
2022
4.5 pp
Nirmal VermaBharatiya Janata Partyby 10,478 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 27 parties and independents

BJP 2 of 540% won SP 2 of 540% won · 3 second BSP 1 of 520% won · 2 second IND 0 of 340% won INC 0 of 40% won AD 0 of 20% won LJP 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 SP won 2 each of 5 contests on record.
wins by party: BJP 2 · SP 2 · BSP 1
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BSP → 2007 SP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2002 at 1.0 pp; the widest 2022 at 4.5 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 4.5 pp was 0.7 pp above the seat's median of 3.8 pp.
4.5 − 3.8 = +0.7
Turnout moved from 55.4% in 2002 to 69.4% in 2022, +14.0 pp.
69.4 − 55.4 = +14.0

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 68.0%

2002 55.4%

2007 46.0%

2012 68.0%

2017 71.2%

2022 69.4%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Biswan, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Nirmal Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,478	4.5	69.4
2017	Mahendra Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,235	4.5	71.2
2012	Rampal Yadav	Samajwadi Party	7,349	3.8	68.0
2007	Raj Kishore Singh	Samajwadi Party	5,145	3.6	46.0
2002	Raj Kishor Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party	1,426	1.0	55.4

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 10,478 votes

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