Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Orai

Assembly constituency 221 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Gauri Shankar · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

11.7pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

37,648votes

14.0 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

60.3%

Seat median 57.7% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 30.0 pp

2002
0.0 pp
Prabhu NarayanSamajwadi Partyby 26 votes
2007
11.7 pp
Sushil KumarBahujan Samaj Partyby 17,239 votes
2012
3.0 pp
DayashankarSamajwadi Partyby 7,133 votes
2017
30.0 pp
Gauri ShankarBharatiya Janata Partyby 78,879 votes
2022
14.0 pp
Gauri ShankarBharatiya Janata Partyby 37,648 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 34 parties and independents

SP 2 of 540% won · 3 second BJP 2 of 450% won BSP 1 of 520% won · 2 second IND 0 of 130% won INC 0 of 30% won BMP 0 of 20% won CPI(ML)L 0 of 20% won IJP 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 SP won 2 each of 5 contests on record.
wins by party: BJP 2 · SP 2 · BSP 1
The seat changed party 3 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 SP → 2007 BSP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2002 at 0.0 pp; the widest 2017 at 30.0 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 14.0 pp was 2.3 pp above the seat's median of 11.7 pp.
14.0 − 11.7 = +2.3
Turnout moved from 53.3% in 2002 to 60.3% in 2022, +7.0 pp.
60.3 − 53.3 = +7.0
The name Gauri Shankar 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, 57.7%

2002 53.3%

2007 50.1%

2012 57.7%

2017 62.0%

2022 60.3%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Orai, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Gauri Shankar	Bharatiya Janata Party	37,648	14.0	60.3
2017	Gauri Shankar	Bharatiya Janata Party	78,879	30.0	62.0
2012	Dayashankar	Samajwadi Party	7,133	3.0	57.7
2007	Sushil Kumar	Bahujan Samaj Party	17,239	11.7	50.1
2002	Prabhu Narayan	Samajwadi Party	26	0.0	53.3

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 78,879 votes

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