All candidates · Vidhan Sabha

Allahabad West

Assembly constituency 261 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 73 candidatures, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Candidatures

5 contests, 2002–2022

Distinct candidates

Across 73 candidatures

Parties

Excludes independents and NOTA

Largest field

19candidates

In 2012

Average field

14.6

73 ÷ 5 contests

Independents

35.6% of candidatures · 0 won

[01]Field size by year

Oldest first · scaled to the largest field, 19

2002 135 independents

2007 165 independents

2012 197 independents

2017 135 independents

2022 124 independents

[02]Parties by candidatures

Top 8 of 28 parties

BSP 2 of 5won of stood BJP 2 of 5won of stood AD 1 of 2won of stood SP 0 of 5won of stood INC 0 of 4won of stood IJP 0 of 2won of stood LJP 0 of 2won of stood PARIVA 0 of 2won of stood

Bars on a scale of 5 contests.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Pooja Pal stood 3 times, the most of any name on this seat.
names matched ignoring spacing and punctuation · 2007 BSP 1st · 2012 BSP 1st · 2017 BSP 3rd
In 2022 the top two candidates took 93.8% of the votes.
53.7 + 40.1 = 93.8
61 of 73 candidatures polled under one-sixth of the votes (83.6%).
count(vote % < 16.67) = 61 · 61 ÷ 73 = 83.6%
The field went from 13 in 2002 to 12 in 2022.
12 − 13 = −1
Independents filed 26 of 73 candidatures and won 0.
count(party = IND) = 26 · won = 0
BSP won 2 of the 5 contests it stood in (40.0%).
2 ÷ 5 = 40.0%

Each line is arithmetic over the candidate rows on this page.

[04]Stood more than once

4 names

01 Pooja Pal 3times 2007 BSP 1st · 2012 BSP 1st · 2017 BSP 3rd
02 Sidharth Nath Singh 2times 2017 BJP 1st · 2022 BJP 1st
03 Richa Singh 2times 2017 SP 2nd · 2022 SP 2nd
04 Ganesh Ji Tripathi 2times 2012 IND 14th · 2022 IND 11th

Year, party and finishing position.

[05]Every candidature

73 of 73 rows · year, then finishing position

Every Vidhan Sabha candidature on record for Allahabad West, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Pos	Candidate	Party	Votes	Vote %
2022	1	Sidharth Nath SinghWON	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,18,759	53.7%
2022	2	Richa Singh	Samajwadi Party	88,826	40.1%
2022	3	Gulam Qadir	Bahujan Samaj Party	7,626	3.5%
2022	4	Tasleem Uddin	Indian National Congress	2,295	1.0%
2022	5	Ajeet Kumar Chaudhary	Peoples Party Of India (Democratic)	1,086	0.5%
2022	6	Adv. Sushmita Raghav	Aam Aadmi Party	601	0.3%
2022	7	Ajay Kumar Gupta	Independent	460	0.2%
2022	8	Saklain Mushtak	Independent	374	0.2%
2022	9	Kamlesh Kumar Singh	Parivartan Samaj Party	360	0.2%
2022	10	Kamar Jahan	Independent	358	0.2%
2022	11	Ganesh Ji Tripathi	Independent	338	0.2%
2022	12	Dilshad Ahmad	National Democratic Peoples Front	260	0.1%
2017	1	Sidharth Nath SinghWON	Bharatiya Janata Party	85,518	43.0%
2017	2	Richa Singh	Samajwadi Party	60,182	30.3%
2017	3	Pooja Pal	Bahujan Samaj Party	40,499	20.4%
2017	4	Hasan Akhlaq	Independent	4,018	2.0%
2017	5	Chandra Dev Singh	Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal	2,974	1.5%
2017	6	Reeta Devi	Independent	1,000	0.5%
2017	7	Sunil Kumar	Rashtriya Lok Dal	999	0.5%
2017	8	Rajendra Kumar	Independent	435	0.2%
2017	9	Ganesh Ji	Independent	368	0.2%
2017	10	Raj Kumar Srivastava	Vikas Party	307	0.2%
2017	11	Nadim Ahamad	Awami Vikas Party	280	0.1%
2017	12	Nizamuddin	Independent	250	0.1%
2017	13	Dakkhini Prasad	Pragatisheel Samaj Party	203	0.1%
2012	1	Pooja PalWON	Bahujan Samaj Party	71,114	40.1%
2012	2	Atiq Ahamad	Apna Dal	62,229	35.1%
2012	3	Jyoti Yaday	Samajwadi Party	18,867	10.6%
2012	4	Ramji Kesarwani	Bharatiya Janata Party	9,740	5.5%
2012	5	Ravi Prakash	Indian National Congress	4,933	2.8%
2012	6	Akhilesh Kumar Singh	Indian Justice Party	1,826	1.0%
2012	7	Ramesh Chandra	Independent	1,274	0.7%
2012	8	Birju Sonkar	Rashtriya Lokmanch	1,210	0.7%
2012	9	Shagir Ahmad	Independent	1,157	0.7%
2012	10	Kusum Lata	Janata Dal (United)	706	0.4%
2012	11	Pappu	Independent	618	0.3%
2012	12	Mangalesh Kumar	Independent	605	0.3%
2012	13	Virendra Kumar	Independent	584	0.3%
2012	14	Ganesh Ji Tripathi	Independent	553	0.3%
2012	15	Sant Kumar Singh	Independent	539	0.3%
2012	16	Poonam Sant	All India Trinamool Congress	404	0.2%
2012	17	Chandan Singh	Parivartan Samaj Party	357	0.2%
2012	18	Roshan Lal	Lok Dal	356	0.2%
2012	19	Nagendra Singh	Lok Janshakti Party	239	0.1%
2007	1	Pooja PalWON	Bahujan Samaj Party	56,198	47.1%
2007	2	Khalid Azim Alias Asraf	Samajwadi Party	45,876	38.4%
2007	3	Keshav Prasad	Bharatiya Janata Party	11,111	9.3%
2007	4	Syed Mohd. Shahab	Indian National Congress	2,110	1.8%
2007	5	Sachin Sonkar	Independent	918	0.8%
2007	6	Manoj Dubey	Independent	550	0.5%
2007	7	Rajesh Yadav	Independent	463	0.4%
2007	8	Pavan Singh	Independent	315	0.3%
2007	9	Gorakh Singh	Uttar Pradesh United Democratic Front	287	0.2%
2007	10	Jugraj Singh Yadav	Lok Janshakti Party	270	0.2%
2007	11	Pradeep Verma	Indian Justice Party	254	0.2%
2007	12	Shyam Maula Baba	Dharam Nirpeksh Dal	216	0.2%
2007	13	Prabhu Narain Srivastava	Rashtriya Janata Dal	214	0.2%
2007	14	Maanu Pasi	Bharatiya Jan Shakti	207	0.2%
2007	15	Sanjay Kumar	Rashtriya Swabhimaan Party	202	0.2%
2007	16	Ajay Kumar	Independent	164	0.1%
2002	1	Atiq AhmadWON	Apna Dal	39,532	36.1%
2002	2	Gopal Das Yadava	Samajwadi Party	27,724	25.3%
2002	3	Amar Nath Singh Maurya	Bahujan Samaj Party	20,141	18.4%
2002	4	Pandit Laxmi Shanker Ojha	Bharatiya Janata Party	15,261	13.9%
2002	5	Virendra Sonkar	Indian National Congress	2,699	2.5%
2002	6	Gyan Prakash Kushwaha	Independent	1,810	1.7%
2002	7	Shamim Ahmad	Independent	538	0.5%
2002	8	Chandrasen Sharma	Rashtriya Kranti Party	468	0.4%
2002	9	Syd. Mohd. Shahab	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)	318	0.3%
2002	10	Ram Lochan	Independent	296	0.3%
2002	11	Syd. Vali Haider	Independent	286	0.3%
2002	12	Munne Alias Iqbal Ibraheem Khan	Manuvadi Party	239	0.2%
2002	13	Vijay	Independent	236	0.2%

Bar: vote share on a 0–100% scale · highlighted rows won

CandidatesElection Commission of India, constituency-wise candidate results · Vidhan Sabha · Allahabad West, Uttar Pradesh · 73 candidatures, 2002–2022 · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Counts and fieldsComputed over every candidate row on record for this seat, not the filtered view