Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Katra Bazar

Assembly constituency 297 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Bawan Singh · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

7.6pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

18,457votes

7.9 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

59.9%

Seat median 60.3% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 14.1 pp

2002
2.8 pp
Luis KhursheedIndian National Congressby 4,264 votes
2007
7.6 pp
Kuldip Singh GangwarBahujan Samaj Partyby 9,653 votes
2012
3.5 pp
Bawan SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 6,947 votes
2017
14.1 pp
Bawan SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 30,811 votes
2022
7.9 pp
Bawan SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 18,457 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 20 parties and independents

BJP 3 of 560% won · 1 second BSP 1 of 520% won · 1 second INC 1 of 425% won · 1 second IND 0 of 330% won SP 0 of 50% won · 2 second RKP 0 of 20% won AAP 0 of 10% won BHARAT 0 of 10% 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 · INC 1 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 INC → 2007 BSP → 2012 BJP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2002 at 2.8 pp; the widest 2017 at 14.1 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 7.9 pp was 0.3 pp above the seat's median of 7.6 pp.
7.9 − 7.6 = +0.3
Turnout moved from 60.9% in 2002 to 59.9% in 2022, −1.0 pp.
59.9 − 60.9 = −1.0
The name Bawan Singh appears as winner in 3 contests: 2012, 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, 60.3%

2002 60.9%

2007 47.5%

2012 60.9%

2017 60.3%

2022 59.9%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Katra Bazar, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Bawan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	18,457	7.9	59.9
2017	Bawan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	30,811	14.1	60.3
2012	Bawan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,947	3.5	60.9
2007	Kuldip Singh Gangwar	Bahujan Samaj Party	9,653	7.6	47.5
2002	Luis Khursheed	Indian National Congress	4,264	2.8	60.9

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 30,811 votes

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