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Bahujan Samaj Party

On Kaptanganj · Assembly constituency 308 · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests on this seat

PartyBahujan Samaj Party
Seat recordKaptanganj
Strike rate
40.0%
Won 2 of 5 candidatures
Contested
5
2002–2022
Runner-up
1
Second-place finish
Best vote share
36.1%
In 2012 · worst 18.8% in 2022
Average share
28.0%
Mean over candidatures with a share
Votes polled here
2.32L
Across all 5 candidatures

[01]Vote share by year

Every contest on this seat · one point per contest
Line chart: Bahujan Samaj Party vote share in Kaptanganj, Vidhan Sabha, 2002 to 2022. Vertical axis 0 to 40 per cent. Contests without a value for this party are gaps, not zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%19.833.636.131.718.820022007201220172022Line chart: Bahujan Samaj Party vote share in Kaptanganj, Vidhan Sabha, 2002 to 2022. Vertical axis 0 to 40 per cent. Contests without a value for this party are gaps, not zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%19.833.636.131.718.820022007201220172022

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. BSP won 2 of 5 candidatures on this seat (40.0%).

    2 ÷ 5 = 40.0%

  2. Vote share moved from 31.7% in 2017 to 18.8% in 2022, −12.9 pp.

    18.8 − 31.7 = −12.9

  3. Its share ranged from 18.8% (2022) to 36.1% (2012), a spread of 17.3 pp.

    36.1 − 18.8 = 17.3

  4. In the 2 contests it won, its share averaged 34.9%.

    (33.6 + 36.1) ÷ 2 = 34.85

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Other parties on this seat

23 · by best finish

[04]Every candidature

5 rows · most recent first
Bahujan Samaj Party candidatures on Kaptanganj, Vidhan Sabha
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2022 Zaheer Ahmad 40,381 18.8 3rd Lost
2017 Ram Prasad Chaudhary 63,700 31.7 2nd Lost
2012 Ram Prasad Chaudhary 67,416 36.1 1st Won
2007 Anil Kumar Ahirwar 39,330 33.6 1st Won
2002 Gyan Prakash 21,273 19.8 3rd Lost
Highlighted rows: contests this party won

CandidaturesElection Commission of India, candidate-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Kaptanganj, Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

RecordWon, runner-up and vote-share figures counted from the same candidate lines · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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