Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Balamau

Assembly constituency 160 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Rampal Verma · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

8.6pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

26,244votes

13.9 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

54.3%

Seat median 53.5% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 13.9 pp

2002
8.6 pp
Abdul KalamSamajwadi Partyby 11,057 votes
2007
5.4 pp
Abdul KalamSamajwadi Partyby 6,573 votes
2012
0.1 pp
Anil VermaSamajwadi Partyby 173 votes
2017
12.3 pp
Ram Pal VermaBharatiya Janata Partyby 22,888 votes
2022
13.9 pp
Rampal VermaBharatiya Janata Partyby 26,244 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 28 parties and independents

SP 3 of 560% won · 1 second BJP 2 of 540% won IND 0 of 290% won BSP 0 of 50% won · 4 second INC 0 of 40% won LKD 0 of 30% won NCP 0 of 20% won RLD 0 of 20% won

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

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

SP won 3 of 5 contests on record (60.0%).
wins by party: SP 3 · BJP 2 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 1 time in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 SP → 2007 SP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2012 at 0.1 pp; the widest 2022 at 13.9 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 13.9 pp was 5.3 pp above the seat's median of 8.6 pp.
13.9 − 8.6 = +5.3
Turnout moved from 53.4% in 2002 to 54.3% in 2022, +0.9 pp.
54.3 − 53.4 = +0.9
The name Rampal Verma appears as winner in 2 contests: 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, 53.5%

2002 53.4%

2007 42.2%

2012 54.7%

2017 53.5%

2022 54.3%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Balamau, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Rampal Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	26,244	13.9	54.3
2017	Ram Pal Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	22,888	12.3	53.5
2012	Anil Verma	Samajwadi Party	173	0.1	54.7
2007	Abdul Kalam	Samajwadi Party	6,573	5.4	42.2
2002	Abdul Kalam	Samajwadi Party	11,057	8.6	53.4

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 26,244 votes

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