Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Meerapur

Assembly constituency 16 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

RLD

Chandan Chauhan · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

6.2pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

27,380votes

12.7 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

68.4%

Seat median 61.8% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 12.7 pp

2002
6.2 pp
Mohd. Aaqil Urf Munna MiyanBahujan Samaj Partyby 8,336 votes
2007
3.8 pp
Rajeev ChannaBharatiya Janata Partyby 5,589 votes
2012
7.5 pp
Jamil Ahmad QasmiBahujan Samaj Partyby 12,733 votes
2017
0.1 pp
Avtar Singh BhadanaBharatiya Janata Partyby 193 votes
2022
12.7 pp
Chandan ChauhanRashtriya Lok Dalby 27,380 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 34 parties and independents

BSP 2 of 540% won · 1 second BJP 2 of 540% won · 1 second RLD 1 of 425% won · 1 second IND 0 of 190% won SP 0 of 40% won · 2 second INC 0 of 30% won IJP 0 of 20% won JP 0 of 20% won

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

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BJP and BSP won 2 each of 5 contests on record.
wins by party: BJP 2 · BSP 2 · RLD 1
The seat changed party 4 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BSP → 2007 BJP → 2012 BSP → 2017 BJP → 2022 RLD
The closest contest was 2017 at 0.1 pp; the widest 2022 at 12.7 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 12.7 pp was 6.5 pp above the seat's median of 6.2 pp.
12.7 − 6.2 = +6.5
Turnout moved from 50.7% in 2002 to 68.4% in 2022, +17.7 pp.
68.4 − 50.7 = +17.7

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 61.8%

2002 50.7%

2007 43.0%

2012 61.8%

2017 69.1%

2022 68.4%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Meerapur, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Chandan Chauhan	Rashtriya Lok Dal	27,380	12.7	68.4
2017	Avtar Singh Bhadana	Bharatiya Janata Party	193	0.1	69.1
2012	Jamil Ahmad Qasmi	Bahujan Samaj Party	12,733	7.5	61.8
2007	Rajeev Channa	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,589	3.8	43.0
2002	Mohd. Aaqil Urf Munna Miyan	Bahujan Samaj Party	8,336	6.2	50.7

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 27,380 votes

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