Mahasi
Assembly constituency 285 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022
[01]Winners and margins
- 2002
0.8 ppRam Ji ShuklaBahujan Samaj Partyby 1,033 votes
- 2007
4.5 ppShekharBahujan Samaj Partyby 6,258 votes
- 2012
1.5 ppKrishna Kumar OjhaBahujan Samaj Partyby 2,489 votes
- 2017
30.4 ppSureshwar SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 58,969 votes
- 2022
20.0 ppSureshwar SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 42,684 votes
[02]Parties on this seat
Won of candidatures, counted from the published candidate lines; independents are counted together.
[03]Computed insights
Arithmetic · working shown-
BSP won 3 of 5 contests on record (60.0%).
wins by party: BSP 3 · BJP 2 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0% -
The seat changed party 1 time in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BSP → 2007 BSP → 2012 BSP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP -
The closest contest was 2002 at 0.8 pp; the widest 2017 at 30.4 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests -
The 2022 margin of 20.0 pp was 15.5 pp above the seat's median of 4.5 pp.
20.0 − 4.5 = +15.5 -
Turnout moved from 54.9% in 2002 to 62.9% in 2022, +8.0 pp.
62.9 − 54.9 = +8.0 -
The name Sureshwar 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
[05]Every contest
| Year | Winner | Party | Margin | Margin % | Turnout % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Sureshwar Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 42,684 | 20.0 | 62.9 |
| 2017 | Sureshwar Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 58,969 | 30.4 | 60.1 |
| 2012 | Krishna Kumar Ojha | Bahujan Samaj Party | 2,489 | 1.5 | 61.9 |
| 2007 | Shekhar | Bahujan Samaj Party | 6,258 | 4.5 | 49.4 |
| 2002 | Ram Ji Shukla | Bahujan Samaj Party | 1,033 | 0.8 | 54.9 |
ContestsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Mahasi, 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