Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Allahabad West

Assembly constituency 261 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Sidharth Nath Singh · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

10.8pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

29,933votes

13.5 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

48.0%

Seat median 47.0% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 13.5 pp

2002
10.8 pp
Atiq AhmadApna Dalby 11,808 votes
2007
8.6 pp
Pooja PalBahujan Samaj Partyby 10,322 votes
2012
5.0 pp
Pooja PalBahujan Samaj Partyby 8,885 votes
2017
12.9 pp
Sidharth Nath SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 25,336 votes
2022
13.5 pp
Sidharth Nath SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 29,933 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 28 parties and independents

BSP 2 of 540% won BJP 2 of 540% won AD 1 of 250% won · 1 second IND 0 of 260% won SP 0 of 50% won · 4 second INC 0 of 40% won IJP 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

BJP and BSP won 2 each of 5 contests on record.
wins by party: BJP 2 · BSP 2 · AD 1
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 AD → 2007 BSP → 2012 BSP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2012 at 5.0 pp; the widest 2022 at 13.5 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 13.5 pp was 2.7 pp above the seat's median of 10.8 pp.
13.5 − 10.8 = +2.7
Turnout moved from 30.2% in 2002 to 48.0% in 2022, +17.8 pp.
48.0 − 30.2 = +17.8
The name Sidharth Nath Singh appears as winner in 2 contests: 2017 and 2022.
winner names matched across years, ignoring spacing and punctuation

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 47.0%

2002 30.2%

2007 34.2%

2012 51.7%

2017 47.0%

2022 48.0%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Allahabad West, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Sidharth Nath Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	29,933	13.5	48.0
2017	Sidharth Nath Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	25,336	12.9	47.0
2012	Pooja Pal	Bahujan Samaj Party	8,885	5.0	51.7
2007	Pooja Pal	Bahujan Samaj Party	10,322	8.6	34.2
2002	Atiq Ahmad	Apna Dal	11,808	10.8	30.2

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 29,933 votes

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