Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Sarojini Nagar

Assembly constituency 170 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Rajeshwar Singh · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

11.8pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

56,186votes

17.3 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

57.6%

Seat median 57.6% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 17.3 pp

2002
13.2 pp
Kamlesh KumarSamajwadi Partyby 18,056 votes
2007
2.2 pp
Vijay Bahadur YadavBharatiya Janata Partyby 3,248 votes
2012
3.6 pp
Sharda Pratap ShuklaSamajwadi Partyby 8,365 votes
2017
11.8 pp
Swati SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 34,179 votes
2022
17.3 pp
Rajeshwar SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 56,186 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 43 parties and independents

BJP 3 of 560% won · 1 second SP 2 of 540% won · 3 second IND 0 of 290% won BSP 0 of 50% won · 1 second INC 0 of 40% won AIMF 0 of 20% won ASP 0 of 20% won AD 0 of 20% 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 · SP 2 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 3 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 SP → 2007 BJP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2007 at 2.2 pp; the widest 2022 at 17.3 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 17.3 pp was 5.5 pp above the seat's median of 11.8 pp.
17.3 − 11.8 = +5.5
Turnout moved from 44.8% in 2002 to 57.6% in 2022, +12.8 pp.
57.6 − 44.8 = +12.8

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 57.6%

2002 44.8%

2007 40.6%

2012 59.2%

2017 58.0%

2022 57.6%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Sarojini Nagar, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Rajeshwar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	56,186	17.3	57.6
2017	Swati Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	34,179	11.8	58.0
2012	Sharda Pratap Shukla	Samajwadi Party	8,365	3.6	59.2
2007	Vijay Bahadur Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party	3,248	2.2	40.6
2002	Kamlesh Kumar	Samajwadi Party	18,056	13.2	44.8

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 56,186 votes

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