Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Balrampur

Assembly constituency 294 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Paltoo Ram · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

6.4pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

10,971votes

5.4 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

47.5%

Seat median 46.5% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 13.1 pp

2002
6.4 pp
Ram Prakash TripathiBharatiya Janata Partyby 9,999 votes
2007
3.5 pp
Arvind SinghSamajwadi Partyby 4,820 votes
2012
11.2 pp
Jagram PaswanSamajwadi Partyby 18,262 votes
2017
13.1 pp
PalturamBharatiya Janata Partyby 24,860 votes
2022
5.4 pp
Paltoo RamBharatiya Janata Partyby 10,971 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 21 parties and independents

BJP 3 of 560% won · 1 second SP 2 of 450% won · 2 second IND 0 of 230% won BSP 0 of 50% won · 1 second INC 0 of 50% won · 1 second BSS 0 of 30% won PECP 0 of 30% won BMP 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 · SP 2 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BJP → 2007 SP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2007 at 3.5 pp; the widest 2017 at 13.1 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 5.4 pp was 1.0 pp below the seat's median of 6.4 pp.
5.4 − 6.4 = −1.0
Turnout moved from 60.0% in 2002 to 47.5% in 2022, −12.5 pp.
47.5 − 60.0 = −12.5

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 46.5%

2002 60.0%

2007 46.5%

2012 45.6%

2017 46.2%

2022 47.5%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Paltoo Ram	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,971	5.4	47.5
2017	Palturam	Bharatiya Janata Party	24,860	13.1	46.2
2012	Jagram Paswan	Samajwadi Party	18,262	11.2	45.6
2007	Arvind Singh	Samajwadi Party	4,820	3.5	46.5
2002	Ram Prakash Tripathi	Bharatiya Janata Party	9,999	6.4	60.0

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 24,860 votes

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