Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Soraon

Assembly constituency 255 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

Geeta Shastri (Pasi) · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

7.2pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

5,590votes

2.5 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

58.1%

Seat median 58.1% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 17.2 pp

2002
17.2 pp
Mahesh Narain SinghSamajwadi Partyby 27,315 votes
2007
0.9 pp
Rakesh Dhar TripathiBahujan Samaj Partyby 1,342 votes
2012
7.2 pp
Satyaveer MunnaSamajwadi Partyby 13,301 votes
2017
8.4 pp
Jamuna PrasadApna Dal (Soneylal)by 17,735 votes
2022
2.5 pp
Geeta Shastri (Pasi)Samajwadi Partyby 5,590 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 31 parties and independents

SP 3 of 560% won · 1 second BSP 1 of 520% won · 2 second ADS 1 of 250% won · 1 second IND 0 of 210% won INC 0 of 50% won BJP 0 of 40% won · 1 second AD 0 of 20% won PRAGAT 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 3 of 5 contests on record (60.0%).
wins by party: SP 3 · ADS 1 · BSP 1 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 4 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 SP → 2007 BSP → 2012 SP → 2017 ADS → 2022 SP
The closest contest was 2007 at 0.9 pp; the widest 2002 at 17.2 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 2.5 pp was 4.7 pp below the seat's median of 7.2 pp.
2.5 − 7.2 = −4.7
Turnout moved from 59.3% in 2002 to 58.1% in 2022, −1.2 pp.
58.1 − 59.3 = −1.2

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 58.1%

2002 59.3%

2007 48.0%

2012 58.8%

2017 57.5%

2022 58.1%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Soraon, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Geeta Shastri (Pasi)	Samajwadi Party	5,590	2.5	58.1
2017	Jamuna Prasad	Apna Dal (Soneylal)	17,735	8.4	57.5
2012	Satyaveer Munna	Samajwadi Party	13,301	7.2	58.8
2007	Rakesh Dhar Tripathi	Bahujan Samaj Party	1,342	0.9	48.0
2002	Mahesh Narain Singh	Samajwadi Party	27,315	17.2	59.3

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 27,315 votes

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