Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Chitrakoot

Assembly constituency 236 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

Anil Kumar Anil Pradhan · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

8.8pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

20,876votes

8.7 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

63.4%

Seat median 60.6% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 12.4 pp

2002
0.8 pp
Somaru Ram SarojBharatiya Janata Partyby 961 votes
2007
8.8 pp
Biraju RamBahujan Samaj Partyby 10,238 votes
2012
8.8 pp
Veer SinghSamajwadi Partyby 16,136 votes
2017
12.4 pp
Chandrika Prasad UpadhyayBharatiya Janata Partyby 26,936 votes
2022
8.7 pp
Anil Kumar Anil PradhanSamajwadi Partyby 20,876 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 22 parties and independents

BJP 2 of 540% won · 1 second SP 2 of 540% won · 2 second BSP 1 of 520% won · 2 second IND 0 of 140% won INC 0 of 40% won CPI 0 of 30% won RLD 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

BJP and SP won 2 each of 5 contests on record.
wins by party: BJP 2 · SP 2 · BSP 1
The seat changed party 4 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BJP → 2007 BSP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 SP
The closest contest was 2002 at 0.8 pp; the widest 2017 at 12.4 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 8.7 pp was 0.1 pp below the seat's median of 8.8 pp.
8.7 − 8.8 = −0.1
Turnout moved from 49.5% in 2002 to 63.4% in 2022, +13.9 pp.
63.4 − 49.5 = +13.9

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 60.6%

2002 49.5%

2007 37.9%

2012 60.6%

2017 61.0%

2022 63.4%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Anil Kumar Anil Pradhan	Samajwadi Party	20,876	8.7	63.4
2017	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	Bharatiya Janata Party	26,936	12.4	61.0
2012	Veer Singh	Samajwadi Party	16,136	8.8	60.6
2007	Biraju Ram	Bahujan Samaj Party	10,238	8.8	37.9
2002	Somaru Ram Saroj	Bharatiya Janata Party	961	0.8	49.5

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 26,936 votes

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