Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Kursi

Assembly constituency 266 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Sakendra Pratap · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

4.6pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

217votes

0.1 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

72.5%

Seat median 67.5% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 11.0 pp

2002
0.7 pp
Krishna PaswanBharatiya Janata Partyby 786 votes
2007
4.6 pp
MurlidharBahujan Samaj Partyby 4,867 votes
2012
10.2 pp
Fareed Mahfooj KidwaiSamajwadi Partyby 23,937 votes
2017
11.0 pp
Sakendra Pratap VermaBharatiya Janata Partyby 28,679 votes
2022
0.1 pp
Sakendra PratapBharatiya Janata Partyby 217 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 31 parties and independents

BJP 3 of 560% won · 1 second BSP 1 of 520% won · 2 second SP 1 of 425% won · 2 second IND 0 of 230% won INC 0 of 40% won CPI 0 of 30% won PECP 0 of 30% won RASHTR 0 of 20% won

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

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BJP won 3 of 5 contests on record (60.0%).
wins by party: BJP 3 · BSP 1 · SP 1 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 3 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BJP → 2007 BSP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2022 at 0.1 pp; the widest 2017 at 11.0 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 0.1 pp was 4.5 pp below the seat's median of 4.6 pp.
0.1 − 4.6 = −4.5
Turnout moved from 45.7% in 2002 to 72.5% in 2022, +26.8 pp.
72.5 − 45.7 = +26.8

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 67.5%

2002 45.7%

2007 39.9%

2012 67.5%

2017 69.7%

2022 72.5%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Kursi, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Sakendra Pratap	Bharatiya Janata Party	217	0.1	72.5
2017	Sakendra Pratap Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	28,679	11.0	69.7
2012	Fareed Mahfooj Kidwai	Samajwadi Party	23,937	10.2	67.5
2007	Murlidhar	Bahujan Samaj Party	4,867	4.6	39.9
2002	Krishna Paswan	Bharatiya Janata Party	786	0.7	45.7

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 28,679 votes

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