Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Ayodhya

Assembly constituency 275 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Ved Prakash · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

16.7pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

19,990votes

8.7 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

60.1%

Seat median 60.1% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 25.3 pp

2002
25.3 pp
Ajay KapoorIndian National Congressby 52,960 votes
2007
16.7 pp
Ajay KapoorIndian National Congressby 40,460 votes
2012
2.8 pp
Tej Narayan Pandey Alias Pawan PandeySamajwadi Partyby 5,405 votes
2017
23.4 pp
Ved Prakash GuptaBharatiya Janata Partyby 50,440 votes
2022
8.7 pp
Ved PrakashBharatiya Janata Partyby 19,990 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 37 parties and independents

BJP 2 of 540% won · 3 second INC 2 of 450% won SP 1 of 520% won · 2 second IND 0 of 250% won BSP 0 of 50% won CPI 0 of 30% won MAP 0 of 30% won ACP 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 INC won 2 each of 5 contests on record.
wins by party: BJP 2 · INC 2 · SP 1
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 INC → 2007 INC → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2012 at 2.8 pp; the widest 2002 at 25.3 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 8.7 pp was 8.0 pp below the seat's median of 16.7 pp.
8.7 − 16.7 = −8.0
Turnout moved from 35.9% in 2002 to 60.1% in 2022, +24.2 pp.
60.1 − 35.9 = +24.2
The name Ajay Kapoor appears as winner in 2 contests: 2002 and 2007.
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, 60.1%

2002 35.9%

2007 38.4%

2012 60.7%

2017 61.5%

2022 60.1%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Ved Prakash	Bharatiya Janata Party	19,990	8.7	60.1
2017	Ved Prakash Gupta	Bharatiya Janata Party	50,440	23.4	61.5
2012	Tej Narayan Pandey Alias Pawan Pandey	Samajwadi Party	5,405	2.8	60.7
2007	Ajay Kapoor	Indian National Congress	40,460	16.7	38.4
2002	Ajay Kapoor	Indian National Congress	52,960	25.3	35.9

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 52,960 votes

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