Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Gauriganj

Assembly constituency 185 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

Rakesh Pratap Singh · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

4.0pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

6,963votes

3.5 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

57.3%

Seat median 58.8% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 13.2 pp

2002
4.0 pp
Shakir AliSamajwadi Partyby 6,126 votes
2007
8.9 pp
Pramod SinghBahujan Samaj Partyby 13,057 votes
2012
0.3 pp
Rakesh Pratap SinghSamajwadi Partyby 503 votes
2017
13.2 pp
Rakesh Pratap SinghSamajwadi Partyby 26,419 votes
2022
3.5 pp
Rakesh Pratap SinghSamajwadi Partyby 6,963 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 33 parties and independents

SP 4 of 580% won · 1 second BSP 1 of 520% won · 1 second IND 0 of 300% won BJP 0 of 50% won · 1 second INC 0 of 50% won · 2 second LKD 0 of 20% won MSP 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

SP won 4 of 5 contests on record (80.0%).
wins by party: SP 4 · BSP 1 · 4 ÷ 5 = 80.0%
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 SP → 2007 BSP → 2012 SP → 2017 SP → 2022 SP
The closest contest was 2012 at 0.3 pp; the widest 2017 at 13.2 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 3.5 pp was 0.5 pp below the seat's median of 4.0 pp.
3.5 − 4.0 = −0.5
Turnout moved from 59.8% in 2002 to 57.3% in 2022, −2.5 pp.
57.3 − 59.8 = −2.5
The name Rakesh Pratap Singh 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, 58.8%

2002 59.8%

2007 46.8%

2012 58.8%

2017 59.5%

2022 57.3%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Gauriganj, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Rakesh Pratap Singh	Samajwadi Party	6,963	3.5	57.3
2017	Rakesh Pratap Singh	Samajwadi Party	26,419	13.2	59.5
2012	Rakesh Pratap Singh	Samajwadi Party	503	0.3	58.8
2007	Pramod Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party	13,057	8.9	46.8
2002	Shakir Ali	Samajwadi Party	6,126	4.0	59.8

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 26,419 votes

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