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Bharatiya Janta Party

On Chitrakoot · Assembly constituency 236 · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests on this seat

PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Seat recordChitrakoot
Strike rate
40.0%
Won 2 of 5 candidatures
Contested
5
2002–2022
Runner-up
1
Second-place finish
Best vote share
40.9%
In 2017 · worst 17.8% in 2012
Average share
30.6%
Mean over candidatures with a share
Votes polled here
2.79L
Across all 5 candidatures

[01]Vote share by year

Every contest on this seat · one point per contest
Line chart: Bharatiya Janta Party vote share in Chitrakoot, Vidhan Sabha, 2002 to 2022. Vertical axis 0 to 50 per cent. Contests without a value for this party are gaps, not zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%50%32.926.317.840.935.120022007201220172022Line chart: Bharatiya Janta Party vote share in Chitrakoot, Vidhan Sabha, 2002 to 2022. Vertical axis 0 to 50 per cent. Contests without a value for this party are gaps, not zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%50%32.926.317.840.935.120022007201220172022

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. BJP won 2 of 5 candidatures on this seat (40.0%).

    2 ÷ 5 = 40.0%

  2. Vote share moved from 40.9% in 2017 to 35.1% in 2022, −5.8 pp.

    35.1 − 40.9 = −5.8

  3. Its share ranged from 17.8% (2012) to 40.9% (2017), a spread of 23.1 pp.

    40.9 − 17.8 = 23.1

  4. In the 2 contests it won, its share averaged 36.9%.

    (32.9 + 40.9) ÷ 2 = 36.90

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Other parties on this seat

22 · by best finish

[04]Every candidature

5 rows · most recent first
Bharatiya Janta Party candidatures on Chitrakoot, Vidhan Sabha
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2022 Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay 83,895 35.1 2nd Lost
2017 Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay 90,366 40.9 1st Won
2012 Chandrika Prasad 32,507 17.8 3rd Lost
2007 Ashok Kumar 30,742 26.3 3rd Lost
2002 Somaru Ram Saroj 41,788 32.9 1st Won
Highlighted rows: contests this party won

CandidaturesElection Commission of India, candidate-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

RecordWon, runner-up and vote-share figures counted from the same candidate lines · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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