Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Allahabad North

Assembly constituency 262 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Harshvardhan Bajpai · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

15.4pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

54,883votes

31.4 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

39.1%

Seat median 40.9% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 31.4 pp

2002
11.6 pp
DayaramBahujan Samaj Partyby 13,016 votes
2007
15.4 pp
Daya RamBahujan Samaj Partyby 14,960 votes
2012
11.1 pp
Anugrah Narayan SinghIndian National Congressby 16,092 votes
2017
20.3 pp
Harshvardhan BajpaiBharatiya Janata Partyby 35,025 votes
2022
31.4 pp
Harshvardhan BajpaiBharatiya Janata Partyby 54,883 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 31 parties and independents

BSP 2 of 540% won · 1 second BJP 2 of 540% won INC 1 of 520% won · 1 second IND 0 of 240% won SP 0 of 40% won · 3 second BKRP 0 of 20% won LJP 0 of 20% won AAP 0 of 10% 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 · INC 1
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BSP → 2007 BSP → 2012 INC → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2012 at 11.1 pp; the widest 2022 at 31.4 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 31.4 pp was 16.0 pp above the seat's median of 15.4 pp.
31.4 − 15.4 = +16.0
Turnout moved from 44.9% in 2002 to 39.1% in 2022, −5.8 pp.
39.1 − 44.9 = −5.8
The name Harshvardhan Bajpai 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, 40.9%

2002 44.9%

2007 34.1%

2012 40.9%

2017 41.7%

2022 39.1%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Allahabad North, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Harshvardhan Bajpai	Bharatiya Janata Party	54,883	31.4	39.1
2017	Harshvardhan Bajpai	Bharatiya Janata Party	35,025	20.3	41.7
2012	Anugrah Narayan Singh	Indian National Congress	16,092	11.1	40.9
2007	Daya Ram	Bahujan Samaj Party	14,960	15.4	34.1
2002	Dayaram	Bahujan Samaj Party	13,016	11.6	44.9

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 54,883 votes

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