Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Hardoi

Assembly constituency 156 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Nitin Agarwal · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

4.2pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

42,411votes

17.9 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

56.6%

Seat median 58.0% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 21.7 pp

2002
4.2 pp
Dinesh SinghIndian National Congressby 5,586 votes
2007
1.6 pp
Chaudhari Ravind PratapIndian National Congressby 2,192 votes
2012
21.7 pp
Nitin AgarwalSamajwadi Partyby 43,682 votes
2017
2.2 pp
Nitin AgarwalSamajwadi Partyby 5,109 votes
2022
17.9 pp
Nitin AgarwalBharatiya Janata Partyby 42,411 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 24 parties and independents

SP 2 of 540% won · 2 second INC 2 of 450% won BJP 1 of 520% won · 1 second IND 0 of 280% won BSP 0 of 50% won · 2 second AAP 0 of 10% won ASP(KR) 0 of 10% won ABNP 0 of 10% won

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

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

INC and SP won 2 each of 5 contests on record.
wins by party: INC 2 · SP 2 · BJP 1
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 INC → 2007 INC → 2012 SP → 2017 SP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2007 at 1.6 pp; the widest 2012 at 21.7 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 17.9 pp was 13.7 pp above the seat's median of 4.2 pp.
17.9 − 4.2 = +13.7
Turnout moved from 58.6% in 2002 to 56.6% in 2022, −2.0 pp.
56.6 − 58.6 = −2.0
The name Nitin Agarwal appears as winner in 3 contests: 2012, 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, 58.0%

2002 58.6%

2007 51.2%

2012 59.2%

2017 58.0%

2022 56.6%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Nitin Agarwal	Bharatiya Janata Party	42,411	17.9	56.6
2017	Nitin Agarwal	Samajwadi Party	5,109	2.2	58.0
2012	Nitin Agarwal	Samajwadi Party	43,682	21.7	59.2
2007	Chaudhari Ravind Pratap	Indian National Congress	2,192	1.6	51.2
2002	Dinesh Singh	Indian National Congress	5,586	4.2	58.6

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 43,682 votes

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