Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Pratapgarh

Assembly constituency 248 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Rajendra Kumar · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

11.0pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

25,063votes

12.9 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

54.5%

Seat median 54.9% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 18.9 pp

2002
11.0 pp
Dr. Ramesh Chand VindBahujan Samaj Partyby 16,294 votes
2007
3.2 pp
Dr. Ramesh Chand BindBahujan Samaj Partyby 4,593 votes
2012
4.5 pp
Nagendra Singh #munna Yadav#Samajwadi Partyby 7,510 votes
2017
18.9 pp
Sangam Lal GuptaApna Dal (Soneylal)by 34,554 votes
2022
12.9 pp
Rajendra KumarBharatiya Janata Partyby 25,063 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 41 parties and independents

BSP 2 of 540% won · 1 second BJP 1 of 425% won SP 1 of 425% won · 2 second ADS 1 of 1100% won IND 0 of 290% won INC 0 of 40% won · 1 second AD 0 of 20% won BMP 0 of 20% won

Won of candidatures, counted from the published candidate lines; independents are counted together.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BSP won 2 of 5 contests on record (40.0%).
wins by party: BSP 2 · ADS 1 · BJP 1 · SP 1 · 2 ÷ 5 = 40.0%
The seat changed party 3 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BSP → 2007 BSP → 2012 SP → 2017 ADS → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2007 at 3.2 pp; the widest 2017 at 18.9 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 12.9 pp was 1.9 pp above the seat's median of 11.0 pp.
12.9 − 11.0 = +1.9
Turnout moved from 59.5% in 2002 to 54.5% in 2022, −5.0 pp.
54.5 − 59.5 = −5.0

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 54.9%

2002 59.5%

2007 50.3%

2012 54.9%

2017 55.3%

2022 54.5%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Rajendra Kumar	Bharatiya Janata Party	25,063	12.9	54.5
2017	Sangam Lal Gupta	Apna Dal (Soneylal)	34,554	18.9	55.3
2012	Nagendra Singh #munna Yadav#	Samajwadi Party	7,510	4.5	54.9
2007	Dr. Ramesh Chand Bind	Bahujan Samaj Party	4,593	3.2	50.3
2002	Dr. Ramesh Chand Vind	Bahujan Samaj Party	16,294	11.0	59.5

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 34,554 votes

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