Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Rasulabad

Assembly constituency 205 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Poonam Sankhwar · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

9.9pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

21,512votes

11.0 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

60.7%

Seat median 59.7% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 17.8 pp

2002
8.3 pp
Ghoora RamBahujan Samaj Partyby 10,018 votes
2007
3.1 pp
Ghoora RamBahujan Samaj Partyby 3,309 votes
2012
9.9 pp
Shiv Kumar BeriaSamajwadi Partyby 16,835 votes
2017
17.8 pp
Nirmala SankhwarBharatiya Janata Partyby 33,394 votes
2022
11.0 pp
Poonam SankhwarBharatiya Janata Partyby 21,512 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 24 parties and independents

BSP 2 of 540% won · 1 second BJP 2 of 540% won · 1 second SP 1 of 520% won · 3 second IND 0 of 170% won INC 0 of 40% won VPI 0 of 20% won ASP 0 of 10% won AD 0 of 10% 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 · SP 1
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BSP → 2007 BSP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2007 at 3.1 pp; the widest 2017 at 17.8 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 11.0 pp was 1.1 pp above the seat's median of 9.9 pp.
11.0 − 9.9 = +1.1
Turnout moved from 51.6% in 2002 to 60.7% in 2022, +9.1 pp.
60.7 − 51.6 = +9.1
The name Ghoora Ram appears as winner in 2 contests: 2002 and 2007.
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, 59.7%

2002 51.6%

2007 38.4%

2012 59.7%

2017 60.4%

2022 60.7%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Rasulabad, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Poonam Sankhwar	Bharatiya Janata Party	21,512	11.0	60.7
2017	Nirmala Sankhwar	Bharatiya Janata Party	33,394	17.8	60.4
2012	Shiv Kumar Beria	Samajwadi Party	16,835	9.9	59.7
2007	Ghoora Ram	Bahujan Samaj Party	3,309	3.1	38.4
2002	Ghoora Ram	Bahujan Samaj Party	10,018	8.3	51.6

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 33,394 votes

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