Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Fatehpur

Assembly constituency 240 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

Chandra Prakash · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

4.1pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

8,601votes

4.1 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

59.0%

Seat median 58.1% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 16.3 pp

2002
4.1 pp
Jagdis SonkarSamajwadi Partyby 5,822 votes
2007
0.5 pp
Jagdish SonkarSamajwadi Partyby 666 votes
2012
2.0 pp
Syed Qasim HasanSamajwadi Partyby 3,786 votes
2017
16.3 pp
Vikram SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 31,498 votes
2022
4.1 pp
Chandra PrakashSamajwadi Partyby 8,601 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 32 parties and independents

SP 4 of 580% won · 1 second BJP 1 of 520% won · 1 second IND 0 of 220% won BSP 0 of 50% won · 3 second INC 0 of 40% won BMP 0 of 20% won BSCP 0 of 20% won LJP 0 of 20% 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 · BJP 1 · 4 ÷ 5 = 80.0%
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 SP → 2007 SP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 SP
The closest contest was 2007 at 0.5 pp; the widest 2017 at 16.3 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 4.1 pp equals the seat's median.
4.1 − 4.1 = 0.0
Turnout moved from 54.1% in 2002 to 59.0% in 2022, +4.9 pp.
59.0 − 54.1 = +4.9

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 58.1%

2002 54.1%

2007 40.7%

2012 58.9%

2017 58.1%

2022 59.0%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Chandra Prakash	Samajwadi Party	8,601	4.1	59.0
2017	Vikram Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	31,498	16.3	58.1
2012	Syed Qasim Hasan	Samajwadi Party	3,786	2.0	58.9
2007	Jagdish Sonkar	Samajwadi Party	666	0.5	40.7
2002	Jagdis Sonkar	Samajwadi Party	5,822	4.1	54.1

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 31,498 votes

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